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Review Python-* / PSF-* licenses together with OSI page #2197

Open swinslow opened 1 year ago

swinslow commented 1 year ago

There are (at least) three different Python-related license IDs on the License List:

Many, many gory details about these different versions are available at https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/1200, but the upshot is:

I'm mentioning all of this because it appears that OSI still has the text of Python-2.0 on its website at https://opensource.org/license/python-2-0/. However, at some point between May 2023 and now, they updated the corresponding SPDX identifier on the OSI site to be PSF-2.0 instead of Python-2.0. (see the Wayback Machine at http://web.archive.org/web/20230526114956/https://opensource.org/license/python-2-0/ for where this previously said Python-2.0)

This means that the text on the OSI site no longer matches the specified identifier on the License List; and the License List's designation of which Python- / PSF- licenses are OSI-approved is no longer in line with what OSI says.

I think there's a couple of options for addressing this:

  1. OSI might correct their page back to use the Python-2.0 identifier
  2. or, OSI might change the text on that page to be what SPDX calls PSF-2.0, and we can update the identifiers accordingly

@richardfontana @jlovejoy I'd welcome your thoughts on the above!

cc @OpenSourceOrg if you have feedback as well!

richardfontana commented 1 year ago

There are (at least) three different Python-related license IDs on the License List:

Also:

richardfontana commented 1 year ago

cc: @VanL