On Mon, Mar 6, 2023 at 11:08 AM Jitka Plesnikova <jplesnik(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Hello
I have one question about one license previously marked as MIT.
On 3/25/15 13:47, Tom Callaway wrote:
On 03/13/2015 05:41 AM, Petr Šabata wrote:
> I found one more license in perl which I'm not sure about;
> according to the source comments, this comes from metamail:
> Copyright (c) 1991 Bell Communications Research, Inc. (Bellcore)
> Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this material for
> any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the
> above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all
> copies, and that the name of Bellcore not be used in advertising or
> publicity pertaining to this material without the specific, prior
> written permission of an authorized representative of Bellcore.
> BELLCORE MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE ACCURACY OR
> SUITABILITY OF THIS MATERIAL FOR ANY PURPOSE. IT IS PROVIDED "AS
> IS", WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES.
This is yet another MIT variant. Just use MIT here.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:MIT?rd=Licensing/MIT#Old_Style_(...
Shall I still use MIT or is it different license?
Full source:
https://github.com/Dual-Life/mime-base64/blob/master/Base64.xs
With Fedora's move to using SPDX expressions, this is no longer "MIT",
which refers solely to licenses that "match" to
https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/blob/main/src/MIT.xml under
the SPDX notion of what "match" means.
Rather, this license looks pretty close to the ill-defined
OSI-approved template legacy license known as "HPND"
https://opensource.org/license/historical-php/, reflected in SPDX at
https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/blob/main/src/HPND.xml
Please submit an issue at fedora-license-data and also
github.com/spdx/license-list-XML -- it's possible that either this
license is treatable as SPDX "HPND" as-is (I don't think so, though),
or perhaps SPDX can revise the HPND.xml file to make that so (I'm not
sure, though, particularly given that HPND is an OSI-approved
license). It's possible SPDX would want to create a new identifier for
this one. (If this already matches to something on the SPDX license
list other than HPND, it wasn't obvious to me.)
Richard