https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2314109



--- Comment #17 from Vít Ondruch <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Dick Marinus from comment #15)
> About the above issue, README.markdown
> (https://github.com/tpope/vim-surround?tab=readme-ov-file#license) states
> the following:
> 
> > Copyright (c) Tim Pope. Distributed under the same terms as Vim itself. See 
> > :help license.
> 
> I copied the SPDX expression from the vim package, I think this is a
> false-positive.

The output suggest to look into documentation, the specific place is here:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/SPDX_Licenses_Phase_1#What_tools_validate_the_License_field?

And this is the verbose output:

~~~
$ license-validate "Vim AND LGPL-2.1-or-later AND MIT AND GPL-1.0-only AND
(GPL-2.0-only OR Vim) AND Apache-2.0 AND BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause AND
GPL-2.0-or-later AND GPL-3.0-or-later AND OPUBL-1.0 AND Apache-2.0 WITH
Swift-exception" -v
License: Vim AND LGPL-2.1-or-later AND MIT AND GPL-1.0-only AND (GPL-2.0-only
OR Vim) AND Apache-2.0 AND BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause AND GPL-2.0-or-later
AND GPL-3.0-or-later AND OPUBL-1.0 AND Apache-2.0 WITH Swift-exception
Warning: OPUBL-1.0 is not-allowed license
OPUBL-1.0 can be used under this condition:
Allowed-for documentation if the copyright holder does not exercise any of the
“LICENSE OPTIONS” listed in Section VI

These packages are known to use this OPUBL-1.0 license as an exception: ['vim']
Uses not-allowed license.
~~~

IOW `OPUBL-1.0` is possibly problematic. It would be nice to find where the
exception was approved and how relevant is this for this plugin.

BTW I have bad experience with statements like "Distributed under the same
terms as Vim itself." The thing is that Vim might change their terms any time
and then it is not clear how it impact SW which claims it is "Distributed under
the same terms". Are those the old terms, new terms, both. Is the claim time
bound? I would suggest to discuss this with upstream.


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