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ignore FreeBSD condition in Simplified BSD license

Open dkoper opened this issue 8 years ago • 2 comments

The cf CLI vendors https://github.com/gorilla/websocket which GitHub identifies as having a BSD-2 Clause license. LF reports it as unknown.

Two differences stand out with LF's Simplified BSD template:

  1. LF's template includes a 3rd(?) clause, "The views and conclusions (...) FreeBSD Project.". Noting that https://opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php does not include it, and the common license name as well as the numbered list in the license indicates there are only 2 conditions, it seems this part may not be part of the license's terms and conditions. Maybe LF can ignore it?
  2. gorilla/websocket omits the numbering in the conditions. No idea way, but I would think it would not change the meaning nor intent of the license.

Probably a low-priority feature request if this is the only library LF reports unknown for these reasons, but I thought I'd share it with you.

dkoper avatar Jan 03 '17 10:01 dkoper

See #218 where it's noted that we'd like to move towards using SPDX to be the source of truth on issues like this.

flavorjones avatar Jan 03 '17 19:01 flavorjones

Interesting. Here are some findings:

  • SPDX's BSD 2 Clause "Simplified" does not include the "The views (...)" clause.
  • Maybe related to my 2. above, SPDX's Apache 2.0 license uses numbers in the subsections (see e.g. 4 (a)-(d)) as per the LICENSE hosted on www.apache.org, but SPDX also includes a pointer to https://opensource.org/licenses/Apache-2.0 as "Other web pages for this license", where the subsections are numbered (see e.g. 4 (1)-(4)).

dkoper avatar Jan 11 '17 12:01 dkoper