Hi, Jilayne, some comments in-line: On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 8:53 AM, Jilayne Lovejoy <[email protected]> wrote: > Do you (OSI) have any thought on the proposed options below? I suppose I > should have made #3 the option of simply adding all three variations.
>>> Currently, the SPDX License List includes only the Artistic License 1.0 >>> (Artistic-1.0) (see: http://spdx.org/licenses/Artistic-1.0) which is >>>the OSI >>> version (with no clause 8). >>> >>> In a previous thread, the last comment on this issue by OSI was to ask >>> whether the OSI variation occurs "in the wild." If not, then it was >>> suggested to change the OSI site to match the Perl site text. >>> >>> (my two cents on this is that it may be hard to say what has been found >>>"in >>> the wild," as it would be easy to conflate "Artistic LIcense 1.0" >>>without >>> realizing the OSI and Perl sites display distinct variations. The only >>>way >>> to determine the difference would require a much closer look. I would >>> hazard to guess that these variations have been confused for each other >>>"in >>> the wild." But I can't back that up in one direction or another at this >>> time.) I've been unable to find resources that would identify this, or at least not without much work that I'm unable to give this at this time. >>> Some insight from a license-savyy person associated with Perl who could >>> help? >>> >>> Proposed solutions: >>> >>> #1 >>> SPDX LIcense List adds two new licenses, as follows: >>> - Artistic License 1.0 w/clause 8 | Artistic-1.0-cl8 >>> - Artistic License 1.0 (Perl) | Artistic-1.0-Perl >>> >>> OSI can then choose(now, later, whenever) to update or change their >>>listing >>> (or not) as it so desires and just update the SPDX short-name identifier >>> accordingly; keeping everything in order, in terms of naming and >>>references. This is obviously the easiest one for us :) Short of any suggestions from the Perl community, historical background, or hard data from someone, I'm inclined to follow this path - I simply don't know yet of any other way to make a choice between them. Luis _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
