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madpah / requirements-parser

A Pip requirements file parser.
https://requirements-parser.readthedocs.io
Apache License 2.0
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BSD Licesne Clarification #46

Closed CleanHit closed 4 years ago

CleanHit commented 4 years ago

Which of the BSD Licenses described in this SPDX repository is actually being used?

davidfischer commented 4 years ago

The license is included in the repository. It is the BSD 2-clause license.

CleanHit commented 4 years ago

@davidfischer Thank you, I've asked because I'm using this specification to scan for Open Source Software (OSS) licenses in my code. The code scans the registered license name in Python repositories e.g. PyPi. Unfortunately, it says "BSD License (BSD)" instead of BSD 2 Clause, BSD 2-Clause or BSD-2-Clause.

This is actually very important because there are many software compliance tools that scan for used OSS libraries in code for legal reasons, as those must be listed in the code that uses them. It would be great, if you could change the the license name in PyPy's meta data to one of the options that I've mentioned above. So it will comply with the SPDX effort to standardise the usage of open source software licenses.

davidfischer commented 4 years ago

This project is not actively maintained and has been seeking maintainers. Feel free to open a pull request with the desired changes and I'll try to review them or ask the community to do so.