[TUHS] Re: Thoughts on Licenses

Before we go inventing our own thing, let's just add spdx tags and metadata..... there already is a standard for this. Warner On Sat, Jul 2, 2022, 1:09 PM Marc Donner &lt;marc.donner(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > I would call that top level directory "metadata" ... the licensing stuff > is quite relevant to the owner and operator of the system, but not directly > relevant to any of its actual content or function. > ===== > nygeek.net > mindthegapdialogs.com/home <https://www.mindthegapdialogs.com/home> > > > On Sat, Jul 2, 2022 at 2:17 PM Clem Cole &lt;clemc(a)ccc.com&gt; wrote: > >> As part of some of simh work, I've been immersed in some licensing >> discussions. Thanks for the V8-10, Plan-9 and Inferno notes - they are >> relevant. >> >> Anyway, WRT to TUHS, I'm thinking that at least in the case of the Unix >> style bits, I propose a small change to Waren's top-level directory. Add >> a new dir called something like 'Legal Docs' or 'Copyrights+Licenses'. >> Then move the Caldera document and Warren's current note into that area. >> Then add copies of anything we can collect like the Dan Cross's V8-10, >> anything WRT to Plan9/Inferno or anything we from the UNIX world - such as >> something Sun, DEC or HP or like might have added. Maybe add a >> subdirectory with the AT&T/USL case details. And maybe add a >> sub-directory with known FOSS licenses used by the UNIX community and add a >> copy of the 3-clause BSD and maybe even the two GPLs. >> >> Then update the README in the current top-level dir. Adding to the >> contents something like "*the IP contained on this website is covered by >> different licenses depending on the specific IP. Copies of these can be >> found with the source code itself, but have also been all collected >> together in the top-level directory: ...*." >> >> I think these all have both historical values, as well as practical >> values. As I said, I was not sure myself and I think other would be less >> ignorant if they could find it all easily. In the case of the practical, >> a for instance, in an email with some lawyers last week, I had pointed them >> at the Caldera document. I'ld have loved to have been able to say look in >> this directory. The Caldera and later Nokia Licenses are what we are >> considering as examples. >> >> Thoughts? >> >