Re: SPDX license review requests

[Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>]

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On 5/26/23 13:58, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> On 5/26/23 00:56, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> [...]
> 
>> Also, Linux-man-pages-copyleft seems to contain a sentence that
>> makes it differ from VERBATIM_PROF:
>>
>> """
>>   The author(s) may
>> not have taken the same level of care in the production of this
>> manual, which is licensed free of charge, as they might when working
>> professionally.
>> """
>>
>> I believe the quality of non-professional code and manuals to be
>> at least as high as the professional one.  We have more freedom to
>> reject crap.  I propose also deprecating Linux-man-pages-copyleft
>> and moving to VERBATIM_PROF as the single surviving license from
>> all four variants.
> 
> I reconsidered.  The non-pro version does actually reflect reality,
> as it doesn't say the level of care is less, but just different.
> That can --and more often than not does-- mean higher level of care.
> 
> So, I prefer Linux-man-pages-copyleft over VERBATIM_PROF.
> 
> <https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/1959#issuecomment-1564255785>
> 
>>
>> We're also discussing the names that each of these four should be
>> given in SPDX.
>>
>>
>> I suggest (in order of appearance in this email):
>>
>> -  Linux-man-pages-copyleft to be renamed to the following, and
>>    mark it as a deprecated license.
>>
>> 	Linux-man-pages-copyleft-nopro
>> 	Linux man-pages Copyleft (non-professional)
> 
> I drop my suggestion of renaming this one (and of deprecating it).
> 
>>
>> -  VERBATIM_PROF to be SPDX'd as:
>>
>> 	Linux-man-pages-copyleft-qual
>> 	Linux man-pages Copyleft (high quality)

And suggest using -pro and (professional) for this one.
But the real name in my mind will be -loqual and (lower
quality).  ;)

>>
>> -  VERBATIM_TWO_PARA to be SPDX'd as:
>>
>> 	Linux-man-pages-copyleft-notrans
>> 	Linux man-pages Copyleft (no translations)
>>
>> -  VERBATIM_ONE_PARA to be SPDX'd as:
>>
>> 	Linux-man-pages-copyleft-verbatim
>> 	Linux man-pages Copyleft (verbatim)
>>
>>
> 

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