Re: SPDX license review requests

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

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On 5/26/23 00:56, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
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> 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)
> 
> -  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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