what license is this?

what license is this?

[Andrew Schulman]

https://github.com/jqlang/jq/blob/master/COPYING

Most parts of this are "as is, do what you want but preserve this notice." That
has the spirit of the Beerware license[1], but it's not exactly that. I'm sure
there must be another license on the SPDX list[2] that fits better, but I can't
tell which one without reading them all, which would make me want to kill
myself.

The rest seems to be covered by CC-BY-3.0 AND ICU.

I wish people wouldn't get so creative with their licenses.

Thanks,
Andrew

[1] https://spdx.org/licenses/Beerware.html
[2] https://spdx.org/licenses/

Re: what license is this?

[John Zaitseff]

Hi, Andrew et al.,

> https://github.com/jqlang/jq/blob/master/COPYING

Debian uses the following in its /usr/share/doc/jq/copyright file:

  License: MIT
  License: CC-BY-3.0
  License: Expat
  License: GPL-2.0+

That might help...

Yours truly,

John Zaitseff

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Re: what license is this?

[ASSI]

Andrew Schulman via Cygwin-apps writes:
> https://github.com/jqlang/jq/blob/master/COPYING

OpenSUSE
License:        CC-BY-3.0 AND MIT

Fedora
License:        MIT and ASL 2.0 and CC-BY and GPLv3


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Achim.
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Re: what license is this?

[Andrew Schulman]

> Hi, Andrew et al.,
> 
> > https://github.com/jqlang/jq/blob/master/COPYING
> 
> Debian uses the following in its /usr/share/doc/jq/copyright file:
> 
>   License: MIT
>   License: CC-BY-3.0
>   License: Expat
>   License: GPL-2.0+
> 
> That might help...

Thank you, and Achim!

And sorry for being so grumpy about it. The whole license thing is just a joy
suck. Thanks for your help.

Andrew

Re: what license is this?

[Brian Inglis]

On 2023-08-28 13:53, ASSI via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> Andrew Schulman via Cygwin-apps writes:
>> https://github.com/jqlang/jq/blob/master/COPYING

SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT AND CC-BY-3.0 AND dtoa AND ICU

https://cygwin.com/cgit/cygwin-packages/jq/tree/jq.cygport?h=playground

Their included jq.spec says:

	License: BSD

but that is contradicted by the contents of COPYING, none of which matches BSD 
0-4 +/- variants but starts with basic MIT, and the rest states CC-BY-3.0, dtoa, 
and ICU, which SPDX have assigned as named.

> OpenSUSE
> License:        CC-BY-3.0 AND MIT
> 
> Fedora
> License:        MIT and ASL 2.0 and CC-BY and GPLv3
                           ^^^^^^^ ?      ...    ^^^^^ what?/where?

Fedora has old stedolan v1.6, but even that included the IBM ICU decNumber 
package, not the alternative GCC sources which were under GPL.

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