Re: [TCLCORE] TIP 705 - Affirm Tcl License

[Pietro C. <ga...@ga...>]

On Nov 27 2024, 20:52 +0000, Andreas Kupries <and...@gm...> wrote:
>
>> On 11/27/24 05:53, msc...@po... wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > the Tcl/Tk license is also listed in the https://spdx.org/licenses/
>> > list at https://spdx.org/licenses/preview/TCL.html, which is commonly
>> > used for Software Bills of Materials to annotate code used and for
>> > license checking tooling.
>> >
>> > If we discuss alternative licenses to be allowed, i would highly
>> > recommend to use the SPDX identifiers to identify such licenses cleanly.
>>
>> I strong urge the acceptance of *TIP 705* */_AS IS_/* and not to start
>> down the slippery slope of allowing other licenses.
>
>Hello Gerald, glad to hear that you are still with us.
>
>I do not read Michael's mail as proposal to change the TIP.
>I believe that his sentence about alternative licenses refers to
>the second sentence of the rationale, i.e.:
>
>    > Should anyone seek to include code under a different license
>    > than the original Tcl license in a Tcl community repository,
>    > please submit that license as a separate TIP to be reviewed and
>    > voted on by the TCT.
>
>I would agree that using such official identifiers would be helpful.
>
>I further believe that it would be helpful to integrate the url
>
>	https://spdx.org/licenses/preview/TCL.html
>
>as a reference into the Abstract. Easier to follow than having to dig
>out the `license.terms` file. Actually, not a good argument, given
>that we would could use
>
>	https://core.tcl-lang.org/tcl/file?name=license.terms&ci=adbae584a7045f19
>
>However the SPDX link might be more useful/official to legal types.
>Third hand, maybe both links ?

I guess the canonical reference (also mentioned by SPDX) would be:
http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/license.html

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