On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 12:42 PM Jens-Ulrik Petersen
<petersen(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Hello,
I am trying to packageĀ¹ editlineĀ² for Fedora,
which has an unusual license that originating from cnews:
https://www.openhub.net/licenses/cnews.
Let me quote the full license text below too for completeness.
Can this be considered a BSD-ish or similar license?
Or does it need a new Fedora license tag (CNEWS?)?
This is almost identical to what Fedora calls the revised version of
the Henry Spencer Regex Library License:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Henry_Spencer_Reg-Ex_Library_Lic...
Note this compliance-related comment:
"Be sure to include a copy of the newer license terms in the package
as %license, to comply with the "documentation" clauses."
Apparently the Fedora license tag for either version of the Henry
Spencer license has been "HSRL". SPDX uses the short identifier
"Spencer-94" for what I think is essentially identical to the revised
HSRL.
The difference that I spotted is that this CNEWS license adds the word
"freely". I believe that would cause the license text not to match
Spencer-94 in the SPDX sense.
That difference is far less significant than textual differences in
other licenses that Fedora has mapped to the sam License: tag.
Therefore, as an unsatisfying shorter term solution here I'd suggest
using "HSRL".
Richard
Thank you, Jens
[1]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1867290
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