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If you see the AGPL licenses on my free and open source work and you think “damn you, I can’t use this to enrich myself or my corporation without sharing back what I’ve built on top of what you’ve freely shared and thus contribute to cultivating a healthy commons where others might enjoy the same benefits from my work that I want to obtain from yours” (a) you really have long-winded thoughts and (b) well, you already see the flaw in your reasoning.
New checks in #namcap allow us to have an easier time adding #SPDX compliant #license identifiers for #packages! 🎉
The initial integration has been worked out in RFC0016:
https://rfc.archlinux.page/0016-spdx-license-identifiers/
#ArchLinux #SPDX #licenses #packaging
0016 Spdx License Identifiers | Arch Linux RFCs
Use SPDX license identifiers in PKGBUILDs Date proposed: 2022-11-17 RFC MR: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/rfcs/-/merge_requests/16 Summary Change to using SPDX license identifiers in the PKGBUILD license value for packages in all repositorie…rfc.archlinux.page
I also stumbled upon BusyBox (GPL-2.0-or-later) vs Toybox (0BSD). Toybox is everywhere in Android, BusyBox not so much, but it's in #Debian.
I don't speak legalese, is there something like: https://rxjs.dev/operator-decision-tree ?
#GPL2orLater vs #0BSD vs #DualLicense?