[License-discuss] Question Mulan Permissive Software License

[McCoy Smith]

There are some differences between the OSI approved version and the latest (Jan 2020) version. Most cosmetic, some potentially substantive.

Andrew, I’ll send you and Bjorn a diff between the two.

[I’ve got a project where I’m doing lots of diffs for the OSI license list corpus so I can do this stuff pretty quick now]

 

From: License-discuss <license-discuss-bounces at lists.opensource.org> On Behalf Of Andrew Katz via License-discuss
Sent: Monday, December 4, 2023 8:35 AM
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Cc: Andrew Katz <Andrew.Katz at moorcrofts.com>; Bjorn Lundell <bjorn.lundell at his.se>
Subject: Re: [License-discuss] Question Mulan Permissive Software License

 

Thanks Stef

 

Björn also noticed the issue with the timing and the (potentially different) two versions (I failed to do so). I don’t have time to do a diff right now, as I’m about to head to Japan for the Open Compliance Summit, but unless some kind person has done this by the time I return, I will do it then.

 

Thanks for getting onto this so quickly. 

 

All the best

 

 

Andrew

 

 

 

From: Stefano Maffulli <stefano at opensource.org <mailto:stefano at opensource.org> >
Date: Monday, 4 December 2023 at 16:28
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Subject: Re: [License-discuss] Question Mulan Permissive Software License

 

Thanks Andrew. The entry has been corrected, with the link to the version 2... There is a time difference I noticed though: The v2 was submitted on December 3, 2019 and the text of the submitted version says "december 2019". But the text of the steward version mentions January 2020, still calling the license v2.

 

I updated the page with the text of the license originally submitted. I haven't had the chance to double-check if there are any differences between the versions from Dec and the January one. 

 

/stef

 

On Sat, Dec 2, 2023 at 8:04 PM Andrew Katz via License-discuss <license-discuss at lists.opensource.org <mailto:license-discuss at lists.opensource.org> > wrote:

Hi All

 

I’ve just been reviewing the Mulan Permissive Software License (SPDX: mulanpsl-2.0). The OSI page relating to this (approved) license is here: 

 

https://opensource.org/license/mulanpsl-2-0/

 

However, the link to the original license steward’s version links to an associated license, the Mulan Public License 2.0 (which at a quick glance is a form of copyleft licence and is not approved by the OSI). They also seem to have come up with their own SPDX-like identifier, which is not on the SPDX database (I’ll raise this with the SPDX team):

 

http://license.coscl.org.cn/MulanPubL-2.0

 

The correct link appears to be here: https://license.coscl.org.cn/MulanPSL2

 

Many thanks

 

 

 

Andrew

 

 

 

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