[ros-users] manifest.xml license tag

[Ken Conley]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Bill Morris <morris at ee.ccny.cuny.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 15:23 -0700, Ken Conley wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Bill Morris <morris at ee.ccny.cuny.edu> wrote:
>> > On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 14:43 -0700, Ken Conley wrote:
>> >> It's a simple addition, but I'm wondering if it is redundant with the
>> >> URL.  i.e. while there is a general URL for the LGPL license, there is
>> >> a specific URL for the 3.0 license:
>> >>
>> >
>> > That is a reasonable solution, but not as machine parseable. I can think
>> > of use cases where someone doesn't want to install GPLed code, but I'm
>> > not sure there is a use case for the version info.
>>
>> Basically I'm wondering if
>>
>> <license url="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0.txt"
>> version="3.0">LGPL</<license>
>>
>> is preferable to
>>
>> <license url="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0.txt">LGPLv3</<license>
>>
>> The separate version attribute favors the family of license, names the
>> license as a physical entity.  I'm mildly leaning towards the latter
>> because license versions are not really equivalent to software
>> versions.  GPLv3 really is a distinct and different license from
>> GPLv2, it's not an upgrade per se.
>
> The advantage with the idea of grouping licenses is that decreases the
> number of permutations. However, I'm not sure what use there is for a
> machine parseable license tag besides code audits.
>
>> Also, I would include "please, please don't use Creative Commons.
>> Even Creative Commons says don't do it":
>> http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Frequently_Asked_Questions#Can_I_use_a_Creative_Commons_license_for_software.3F
>
> Another problematic one is undefined licenses. Anything is better than
> undefined because I can't agree or disagree to an undefined license.

There are others too that are descriptive but don't actually name a
license, e.g. 'closed source' and 'proprietary'.

Do you have time to author up a draft of a REP for this?  I can
contribute a bit of text, but right now the main focus is on getting
things frozen for Electric.

 - Ken

>> >> ???
>> >> No Clue
>> >> Unknown1
>> >> WhoCares
>> >> trivial-features
>> >> unknown
>
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