3 Jul
2022
3 Jul
'22
5:54 a.m.
Agreed
On Sat, Jul 2, 2022 at 5:03 PM Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
If I were looking for licenses
"Copyrights+Licenses" would make me
find, "metadata" I wouldn't think to look in.
But I'm an old retired dude without many brain cells left.
On Sat, Jul 02, 2022 at 02:57:31PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
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Sent from a handheld expect more typos than usual
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 <marc.donner(a)gmail.com> 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.
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> On Sat, Jul 2, 2022 at 2:17 PM Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> 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?
>>
>
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