On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 6:35 AM marc <marcx2 at welz.org.za> wrote: Also, even though the list of licenses they have collected is > long, I can't spot (and let me know if otherwise) > any newer ethical licenses - the ones one > can find by following links on writing.kemitchell.com The first sentence on that page says: "The SPDX License List is a list of commonly found licenses and exceptions used in free and open source and other collaborative software or documentation." That excludes licenses that are not commonly used and those that are not free/open source licenses. SPDX looks through various sources to determine what's commonly used, but probably can't find anything that's not on the Web. It defers to the OSI and the FSF to determine what is a free and open source license, though it does make its own judgments of the form "Oh, this is the same as the 2-clause BSD" and includes them. > For instance, one could imagine somebody publishing > their capsule under a "free but no surveillance, no deduction > of personal information" license, and if there is a > gatekeeper who approves an "acceptable" license, then > this might be harder. Such a license is neither free nor open source, and as such it is outside the SPDX remit. Some CC licenses aren't either, but they are included because they are commonly used for documentation. Then there is the (quite) unusual matter of the gemini > syntax - how to accommodate the "SPDX-License-Identifier" > token in gemini files. > That's why I think it is a good idea to make the copyright notice a link line, like this: => https://spdx.org/licenses/CC0-1.0.html Copyright 2020 by John Cowan under CC0-1.0 John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan cowan at ccil.org Using RELAX NG compact syntax to develop schemas is one of the simple pleasures in life.... --Jeni Tennison -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/attachments/20201104/4bd1 95bb/attachment.htm>
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