Quoting Dominique Dumont (2020-02-05 09:48:36) > On Tuesday, 4 February 2020 19:37:36 CET you wrote: > > Do you agree with my interpretation? > > yes. > > I wonder how I did not see this difference ... > > Anyway, this clause is seldom used. A search on the web finds that > this clause is used by GLEW (OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library). > > I wonder if this license should be considered as a BDS-2-clause or yet > another BSD mutation which should be copied verbatim in > debian/copyright...
I checked and found that ScanCode - a competitor to Licensecheck with a big testsuite - mis-detects that pattern as bsd-new (a.k.a. BSD-3-Clause), and reported that as a bug: https://github.com/nexB/scancode-toolkit/issues/1889 Turns out that the pattern is a specific author making a mistake that was quickly corrected when aware of it: https://github.com/chemeris/msinttypes/issues/7 and b) Current view of Philippe Ombredanne (author of ScanCode) is that it should be treated as BSD-3-Clause (since that was the intended licensing) - I am of the opinion that it should be treated as a variation of BSD-2-Clause (since in my understanding that is what it legally is) and I think our scanners could then optionally hint at the meta level about _why_ it is a mutation (e.g. flagging it as "imperfect" as per my idea about "qualities" - see bug#950363). - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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