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John Cowan cowan at ccil.org
Wed Nov 4 20:00:21 GMT 2020
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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 ofcommonly found licenses and exceptions used in free and open source andother collaborative software or documentation." That excludes licensesthat are not commonly used and those that are not free/open sourcelicenses. SPDX looks through various sources to determine what's commonlyused, but probably can't find anything that's not on the Web. It defers tothe 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 asthe 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 outsidethe SPDX remit. Some CC licenses aren't either, but they are includedbecause 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 linkline, like this:
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https://spdx.org/licenses/CC0-1.0.html Copyright 2020 by John Cowanunder CC0-1.0
John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan cowan at ccil.orgUsing RELAX NG compact syntax to develop schemas is one of the simplepleasures in life.... --Jeni Tennison-------------- next part --------------An HTML attachment was scrubbed...URL: <https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/attachments/20201104/4bd195bb/attachment.htm>