On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 01:26:33PM +0100, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
Dne 02. 01. 22 v 17:19 Richard W.M. Jones napsal(a):
Testing rpm-specs/ipxe.spec
No terminal defined for 'w' at line 1 col 8
GPLv2 with additional permissions and BSD
^
Expecting: {'AND', 'OR'}
The license does appear to be accurate in the sense that it reflects
the somewhat unusual license of iPXE.
The problem is that
GPLv2 with additional permissions
is not valid short name from
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main#Software_License_List
Oh I see, I thought that the OCaml license ("LGPLv2+ with exceptions")
was somehow composed of <license> + "with exceptions". But I see from
the list that the whole thing is a permitted license.
The License tag was never formally defined. If we agree that there
can be
anything, then let it be.
Just most of our strings are in the form:
license: "(" license ")" | license operator license | short_name
operator: "and" | "or"
where short_name is the identifier from Licensing:main.
If we fix few exceptions like "license, license" then we will benefit from
* unified syntax
* machine readable string
* automatic validation
I recommend to track such exceptions in comments. E.g.
# the actual license have additional permission allowing to ....
License: GPLv2 and BSD
Well I'm not so sure since the license for OCaml software is certainly
not just LGPLv2+, and the way OCaml is linked makes it impossible for
distributors to meaningfully comply with the problematic subclause of
clause 2 of the LGPL, hence the need for a permissive exception. This
sounds like something we would need to record for automation.
Rich.
Miroslav
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