On Wed, 1 May 2013 18:42:19 Charles Plessy wrote:
> to be comprehensive, there are also the Software Package Data Exchange
> project and the Open Source Initiative which both agree on a reference
> MIT license:
>
> http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
> http://spdx.org/licenses/MIT
>
> So if it matches the above, it may be fair to call it "MIT" if Upstream calls
> it "MIT".
Interesting, thanks.
> In the case of gti, the license does not match the text of the MIT or Expat
> license, therefore it is better to use an arbitrary short name. Something
> like
> "gti", or "MIT-like" (as Upstream calls it), etc. would be enough.
The following page
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:MIT?rd=Licensing/MIT#Old_Style
refers to the text of this license as "MIT Old Style" therefore I
suggested to label it as "MIT-old-style" exactly because it's not a
new MIT license (AKA Expat).
Best wishes,
Dmitry Smirnov
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