On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 09:23:55AM -0400, Richard Fontana wrote: > On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 7:25???AM Lukas Wunner <lu...@wunner.de> wrote: > > > > Per section 4.c. of the IETF Trust Legal Provisions, "Code Components" > > in IETF Documents are licensed on the terms of the BSD-3-Clause license: > > > > https://trustee.ietf.org/documents/trust-legal-provisions/tlp-5/ > > > > The term "Code Components" specifically includes ASN.1 modules: > > > > https://trustee.ietf.org/documents/trust-legal-provisions/code-components-list-3/ > > Sorry if this seems super-pedantic but I am pretty sure the license > text in the IETF Trust Legal Provisions does not actually match SPDX > `BSD-3-Clause` because of one additional word in clause 3 ("specific" > before "contributors"), so IMO you should get SPDX to modify its > definition of `BSD-3-Clause` prior to applying this patch (or get IETF > to change its version of the license, but I imagine that would be more > difficult).
I've submitted a pull request to modify the SPDX definition of BSD-3-Clause for the IETF variant: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/pull/2218 I assume this addresses your concern? Let me know if it doesn't. If anyone has further objections to this patch please speak up. Thanks, Lukas
