License for Sublime Text language definitions for syntax highlighting
by Fabio Valentini
Hi all,
I noticed that there are some packages that bundle data from Sublime
Text, notably data for how to apply syntax highlighting for various
programming languages. The license that applies to this data is in
this file:
https://github.com/sublimehq/Packages/blob/759d6eed9b4beed87e602a23303a12...
(Yes, in one case that I'm looking at, the bundled data is a 5 years
old snapshot. Apparently only the Sublime Text v3 format is supported
by syntect.)
The contents of this LICENSE file are very short, so I'll just include
it verbatim for convenience:
```
If not otherwise specified (see below), files in this repository fall
under the following license:
Permission to copy, use, modify, sell and distribute this
software is granted. This software is provided "as is" without
express or implied warranty, and with no claim as to its
suitability for any purpose.
An exception is made for files in readable text which contain their
own license information, or files where an accompanying file exists
(in the same directory) with a “-license” suffix added to the
base-name name of the original file, and an extension of txt, html, or
similar. For example “tidy” is accompanied by “tidy-license.txt”.
```
I could not find any SPDX license that matches this text. It looks
very permissive to me, so it should be acceptable for content, but I
would need to know how to classify it - both for existing packages
where this was missed during package review, as well for a new package
for a library that I need to package in order to be able to update an
existing package to the latest version.
Fabio
2 weeks, 5 days
