[License-discuss] Question Mulan Permissive Software License

[Pamela Chestek]

McCoy,

Can you send me a diff too?

Thanks,
Pam

On 12/4/2023 9:11 AM, McCoy Smith wrote:
>
> 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
> *To:* license-discuss at lists.opensource.org
> *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>
> *Date: *Monday, 4 December 2023 at 16:28
> *To: *"license-discuss at lists.opensource.org" 
> <license-discuss at lists.opensource.org>
> *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 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> 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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