Hi Geoffrey: On Sat, Mar 16, 2024 at 1:45 PM Geoffrey Coram <gjco...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I work on some industry standards that are license under the Educational > Community License, version 2.0. A copy of that license can be found here: > https://opensource.org/license/ecl-2-0 > > The appendix "How to apply ..." says > "You may obtain a copy of the License at > http://www.osedu.org/licenses/ECL-2.0"; > > However, that link takes me to a page that says "No Results Found." The site > seems to have gotten out of the business of hosting licenses. > > Wikipedia provides this link: https://spdx.org/licenses/ECL-2.0.html > which also points to the osedu.org site. > > Is it "legal" to change the appendix of the license to supply a valid URL?
Legal or not, this is IMHO a bad idea in general as some tools that compute exact checksums on the license text will get fooled (not my tools). Feel free to draft a notice to use in code header comments with a proper URL; or even better, bypass the URL entirely and use an SPDX-License-Identifier: ECL-2.0 tag. FWIW, the web archive is your friend: https://web.archive.org/web/20100617144451/http://www.osedu.org/licenses/ECL-2.0/ and the domain osedu.org was likely abandoned then taken over by a squatter circa 2015. Other URL to consider: https://opensource.org/license/ecl-2-0 -- Cordially Philippe Ombredanne _______________________________________________ The opinions expressed in this email are those of the sender and not necessarily those of the Open Source Initiative. Official statements by the Open Source Initiative will be sent from an opensource.org email address. License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@lists.opensource.org http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org
