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From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: kcar-public@bogomips.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/5] gemspec: use SPDX compatible terms for the license(s)
Date: Fri,  3 Mar 2017 20:53:03 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170303205307.2275-2-e@80x24.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170303205307.2275-1-e@80x24.org>

This should make things less confusing for automated license
checkers.  Disclaimer: I don't like or even understand the
original Ruby license, but only maintain it out of respect for
the original Mongrel license.
---
 kcar.gemspec | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kcar.gemspec b/kcar.gemspec
index 6283992..3d8d39d 100644
--- a/kcar.gemspec
+++ b/kcar.gemspec
@@ -19,5 +19,11 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.add_development_dependency('olddoc', '~> 1.0')
   s.add_development_dependency('test-unit', '~> 3.0')
 
-  s.licenses = %w(GPLv2+ Ruby)
+  # Note: To avoid ambiguity, we intentionally avoid the SPDX-compatible
+  # 'Ruby' for the Ruby 1.8 license.  This is because Ruby 1.9.3 switched
+  # to BSD-2-Clause, but we inherited our license from Mongrel when
+  # Ruby was at 1.8.  We cannot automatically switch licenses when Ruby
+  # changes; so we maintain the Ruby 1.8 license (not 1.9.3+) along
+  # with GPL-2.0+
+  s.licenses = %w(GPL-2.0+ Nonstandard)
 end
-- 
EW


  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-03 20:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-03 20:53 [PATCH 0/5] miscellaneous updates Eric Wong
2017-03-03 20:53 ` Eric Wong [this message]
2017-03-03 20:53 ` [PATCH 2/5] archive/slrnpull.conf: add a note explaining the purpose Eric Wong
2017-03-03 20:53 ` [PATCH 3/5] drop rb_str_set_len compatibility replacement Eric Wong
2017-03-03 20:53 ` [PATCH 4/5] remove rb_str_modify workaround Eric Wong
2017-03-03 20:53 ` [PATCH 5/5] TypedData C-API conversion Eric Wong

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