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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>There are some differences between the OSI approved version and the latest (Jan 2020) version. Most cosmetic, some potentially substantive.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Andrew, I’ll send you and Bjorn a diff between the two.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>[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]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US> License-discuss <license-discuss-bounces@lists.opensource.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Andrew Katz via License-discuss<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, December 4, 2023 8:35 AM<br><b>To:</b> license-discuss@lists.opensource.org<br><b>Cc:</b> Andrew Katz <Andrew.Katz@moorcrofts.com>; Bjorn Lundell <bjorn.lundell@his.se><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [License-discuss] Question Mulan Permissive Software License<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Thanks Stef<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Thanks for getting onto this so quickly. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>All the best<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Andrew<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>From: </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Stefano Maffulli <<a href="mailto:stefano@opensource.org">stefano@opensource.org</a>><br><b>Date: </b>Monday, 4 December 2023 at 16:28<br><b>To: </b>"<a href="mailto:license-discuss@lists.opensource.org">license-discuss@lists.opensource.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:license-discuss@lists.opensource.org">license-discuss@lists.opensource.org</a>><br><b>Cc: </b>Andrew Katz <<a href="mailto:Andrew.Katz@moorcrofts.com">Andrew.Katz@moorcrofts.com</a>>, Bjorn Lundell <<a href="mailto:bjorn.lundell@his.se">bjorn.lundell@his.se</a>><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [License-discuss] Question Mulan Permissive Software License<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>/stef<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>On Sat, Dec 2, 2023 at 8:04 PM Andrew Katz via License-discuss <<a href="mailto:license-discuss@lists.opensource.org">license-discuss@lists.opensource.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in'>Hi All<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in'>I’ve just been reviewing the Mulan Permissive Software License (SPDX: mulanpsl-2.0). The OSI page relating to this (approved) license is here: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in'><a href="https://opensource.org/license/mulanpsl-2-0/" target="_blank">https://opensource.org/license/mulanpsl-2-0/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in'>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):<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in'><a href="http://license.coscl.org.cn/MulanPubL-2.0" target="_blank">http://license.coscl.org.cn/MulanPubL-2.0</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in'>The correct link appears to be here: <a href="https://license.coscl.org.cn/MulanPSL2" target="_blank">https://license.coscl.org.cn/MulanPSL2</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in'>Many thanks<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in'>Andrew<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204)'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in'> <o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>_______________________________________________<br>The opinions expressed in this email are those of the sender and not necessarily those of the Open Source Initiative. 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