On 12/19/17 21:55, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
On Dec 19, 2017, at 19:15, Rodney W. Grimes <free...@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net>
wrote:
Author: pfg
Date: Tue Dec 19 22:40:16 2017
New Revision: 327005
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/327005
Log:
SPDX: These are fundamentally BSD-2-Clause.
They just omit the introductory line and numbering.
I again must assert that it would be better to not apply an SPDX than to
apply one that is not an exact match for the license.
Not being a lawyer, I would normally agree, however:
This isnt about any legal issue.
1) SPDX IDs are only advisory: we always keep the exact license text, which is
what has legal value.
And we should do our best to provide the most accurate advisory we can,
and we know that this is not a direct copy of the BSD 2 clause, so making
advice that it is, IMHO, would be poor advice.
2) The license is detected by license scanners as BSD and it has two clauses so
the description fits.
And a human reading it sees it reads like a 2 clause but does not match a 2
clause exactly so
how do I trust any of this SPDX stuff as being done with some ration of sanity.
FWIW, according to SPDX lawyers, the numbering is not relevant and it would
appear to me that the phrase:
"Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:? doesn?t
add any information to the two clauses, which read:
Again, not a legal issue, an issue of this is not an exact BSD-2-Clause so I
do not believe that we should tag it as such. Basically if we are doing this
"close enough" thing it means the SPDX tags are actually pretty useless for
anyone trying to do a legal evaluation cause they are just going have to
completly redo what was done in adding the SPDX tags, and if that is the
case we should seriously consider just what value do these have in the
tree?
Indeed .. after having the change reviewed by someone objective, I have
reverted the change in r327040.
Thanks for speaking up!
Pedro.
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