[License-review] Process involved in adding the Sendmail license to the list of legacy licenses

Thorsten Glaser tg at mirbsd.de
Sat Jan 7 14:34:44 UTC 2023


Dan Mahoney dixit:

>In an interesting tom-sawyer quest, getting the license recognized by
>Github requires getting it included at ChooseALicence.com

Heh. That page now recommends the “Unlicense”[sic!] which is not even
a licence… it doesn’t list other well-used and approved ones. I’d not
give much worth to it.

Incidentally, hosting on GitHub doesn’t even require a licence (other
than for GitHub to publish it and for users to be allowed to “fork”
the repository), let alone a FOSS licence, let alone an approved one.

>It DOES have an SPDX entry.

Should be enough for categorisation. I’d not waste my time (if I were
in your place) bothering with more.

bye,
//mirabilos
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