[Bug 271399] Software License Policy, FreeBSD Licensing Policy: updates and corrections

[b***@freebsd.org]

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=271399

Bug ID: 271399
Summary: Software License Policy, FreeBSD Licensing Policy:
updates and corrections
Product: Documentation
Version: Latest
Hardware: Any
OS: Any
Status: New
Severity: Affects Many People
Priority: ---
Component: Books & Articles
Assignee: ***@FreeBSD.org
Reporter: ***@freebsd.org

Aim for <https://www.freebsd.org/internal/software-license/> and article
<https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/license-guide/> to be consistent with
each other.

The article describes use of non-existent directories such as:

LICENSES
LICENSE


Re: BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD,

… A review of its current use is ongoing.

From yesterday's
<https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=4d846d260e2b9a3d4d0a701462568268cbfe7a5b>,

spdx: The BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD identifier is obsolete, drop -FreeBSD

…

[b***@freebsd.org]

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=271399

Graham Perrin <***@freebsd.org> changed:

What |Removed |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Status|New |Open

2. For each sub-expression, copy the license text from
LICENSE/text/id.txt. When exceptions are present, append them from
src/share/license/exceptions/id.txt. SPDX-License-Identifier
expressions should be construed as described in the SPDX standard.
Where id is the SPDX short license identifier from the Identifier column of SPDX Identifiers or license exception. …

Has there been loss of a numbered list item? Or should the sentence that begins
"Where" be part of the preceding item?

[b***@freebsd.org]

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=271399

--- Comment #2 from Graham Perrin <***@freebsd.org> ---
<https://spdx.org/> redirects to <https://spdx.dev/>.

What should be a numbered list is misrepresented as sentences beginning with
". ".

[b***@freebsd.org]

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=271399

--- Comment #3 from commit-***@FreeBSD.org ---
A commit in branch main references this bug:

URL:
https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/doc/commit/?id=fae4bec720c3d641187be76c7a77d5499b4962e7

commit fae4bec720c3d641187be76c7a77d5499b4962e7
Author: Graham Perrin <***@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2023-05-13 23:26:12 +0000
Commit: Graham Perrin <***@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2023-05-13 23:26:12 +0000

FreeBSD Licensing Policy: markup, punctuation

Partially fix
https://bugs.freebsd.org/271399
– make it easier to assess what remains to be changed.

PR: 271399

documentation/content/en/articles/license-guide/_index.adoc | 10 ++++++----
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

[b***@freebsd.org]

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=271399

Mark Linimon <***@FreeBSD.org> changed:

What |Removed |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Status|Open |Closed
Resolution|--- |FIXED