Re: [ptxdist] [PATCH 6/7] openfortivpn: new package

[Roland Hieber <rhi@pengutronix.de>]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 11:05:20AM +0200, Roland Hieber wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 10:22:13AM +0200, Ladislav Michl wrote:
> So I would classify it as an exception to the GPL-3.0, but since there
> is no SPDX identifier for that exact wording yet, we can use "WITH
> unknown-exception" as a placeholder, so any users who need to collect
> licensing information will stumble upon it and are forced to investigate
> further.

As a side note: the "true" SPDX way to express this would be to create a
separate SPDX document for the unknown exception, and with that document
assign a local identifier to it, like "LicenseRef-openfortivpn-OpenSSL-
exception". Then the full license identifier can be "OpenSSL AND
"GPL-3.0-or-later WITH LicenseRef-openfortivpn-OpenSSL-exception".  But
we have no way of representing this workflow in PTXdist, since we're
only using the already existing SPDX license identifiers.

For background info, there was some discussion about this in
<https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/939>.

 - Roland

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