Re: [exim] licensing and SPDX

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Autor: Andrew C Aitchison
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To: exim-users
Betreff: Re: [exim] licensing and SPDX

On Mon, 31 Oct 2022, Heiko Schlittermann via Exim-users wrote:

>
> From a legal point of view (but IANAL by any means), we probably
> could find an SPDX identifier matching the *current* license
> statement of each individual file, to match the *current* intent.
> This implicates that the *current* license is compatible with any
> previous one or is confirmed by the holder of the previous license.
>
>
> Changing *all* files might be doable, but I wouldn't feel
> comfortable doing so, because it would require me to understand the
> licensing details of every single file.
>
> 1) require *new* files having the SPDX identifier
> 2) (in a 2nd step) require modified files having that identifier
>
> Both should be doable with hooks in our Git repo.


Theoretically 2) means we cannot change a file if we do not understand
its licensing details :-(

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Andrew C. Aitchison                      Kendal, UK
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