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From:   Richard Fontana <rfontana@redhat.com>
Date:   Sat, 21 Oct 2023 09:23:55 -0400
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] treewide: Add SPDX identifier to IETF ASN.1 modules
To:     Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
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On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 7:25=E2=80=AFAM Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de> wrot=
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>
> Per section 4.c. of the IETF Trust Legal Provisions, "Code Components"
> in IETF Documents are licensed on the terms of the BSD-3-Clause license:
>
> https://trustee.ietf.org/documents/trust-legal-provisions/tlp-5/
>
> The term "Code Components" specifically includes ASN.1 modules:
>
> https://trustee.ietf.org/documents/trust-legal-provisions/code-components=
-list-3/

Sorry if this seems super-pedantic but I am pretty sure the license
text in the IETF Trust Legal Provisions does not actually match SPDX
`BSD-3-Clause` because of one additional word in clause 3 ("specific"
before "contributors"), so IMO you should get SPDX to modify its
definition of `BSD-3-Clause` prior to applying this patch (or get IETF
to change its version of the license, but I imagine that would be more
difficult). This issue of a multitude of nonsubstantively different,
non-matching versions of clause 3 is a common issue that has been
coming up in the Fedora project's adoption of SPDX identifiers for
license metadata.

Richard