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improved screen locker
https://i3wm.org/i3lock
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Non-standard License (not sure which SPDX identifier to use) #337

Closed pennbauman closed 1 year ago

pennbauman commented 1 year ago

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The current license file appears to be a variation of the BSD 3-Clause license, by I can't identify exactly which one. I would like to use an accurate SPDX identifier while packaging i3lock, but I'm unsure how to do that currently.

Is the provided license a specific standard license? If so shouldn't the license file use standard license text so it can be easily identified?

stapelberg commented 1 year ago

It’s the 3-clause BSD license.

I updated the text so that GitHub and other tools figure it out.

For licensing questions, it’s always worth checking out what Debian does: https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/i/i3lock/i3lock_2.14.1-1_copyright

pennbauman commented 1 year ago

Thanks! I'll remember that, I was looking a Fedora's packaging which had it listed as MIT for some reason.

stapelberg commented 1 year ago

The MIT license is very similar, but 3-clause BSD has one extra clause. See https://fossa.com/blog/open-source-software-licenses-101-bsd-3-clause-license/ for details.