Apparently there are two versions of Artistic (1.0) license: 9-clause and 10-clause. Their SPDX identifiers are respectively: - Artistic-1.0 for the 9-clause version [1] - Artistic-1.0-cl8 for the 10-clause version [2] OSI lists both variants on the same page, giving the 9-clause version along with notice that "some versions" of the license contain the additional clause. However, our "Artistic" license seems to be only the 10-clause version without any notice of the other variant. I'm wondering if we should either: a. split Artistic license into two versions, i.e. add the 9-clause version as a separate license, b. add a notice that the 8th clause is not present in all versions of the license. I may try to attempt some scripting attempt to roughly estimate how many Gentoo packages are using the 9-clause version. CC-ing Perl project since dev-perl/* is a major consumer of this license. [1] https://spdx.org/licenses/Artistic-1.0.html [2] https://spdx.org/licenses/Artistic-1.0-cl8.html [3] https://opensource.org/licenses/Artistic-1.0
They both have a clause 8, so -cl8 is really a confusing name. :/ (In reply to Michał Górny from comment #0) > OSI lists both variants on the same page, giving the 9-clause version along > with notice that "some versions" of the license contain the additional > clause. They have the 10-clause version on a separate page: https://opensource.org/licenses/Artistic-Perl-1.0 > I'm wondering if we should either: > > a. split Artistic license into two versions, i.e. add the 9-clause version > as a separate license, > > b. add a notice that the 8th clause is not present in all versions of the > license I'd go for b, because the additional case covers a special case which IMHO isn't very relevant for us or our users. Alternatively, we could add licenses/Perl which would be equivalent to the disjuction of Artistic-Perl-1.0 and GPL-2. The FSF lists it as a separate license: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#PerlLicense The question would then be if any non-Perl packages use the 10-clause license. Could you check that with your scripting?
(In reply to Ulrich Müller from comment #1) > I'd go for b, because the additional case covers a special case which IMHO ... the additional *clause* ... > isn't very relevant for us or our users.
(In reply to Ulrich Müller from comment #1) > (In reply to Michał Górny from comment #0) > > OSI lists both variants on the same page, giving the 9-clause version along > > with notice that "some versions" of the license contain the additional > > clause. > > They have the 10-clause version on a separate page: > https://opensource.org/licenses/Artistic-Perl-1.0 Actually, according to SPDX Perl's license is yet another variant of Artistic License: | This is the Artistic License 1.0 found on the Perl site, which is different | (particularly, clauses 5, 6, 7 and 8) than the Artistic License 1.0 w/clause 8 | found on the OSI site. [1] Though unless my eyes deceive me, both licenses are the same on OSI site now. However, the SPDX versions seem to have meaningful differences, e.g. (7.) in Artistic-1.0 says: | C or perl subroutines while in Artistic-1.0-Perl says: | C subroutines (or comparably compiled subroutines in other languages) The version included in perl-5.36.0 is the latter, i.e. different than the one on OSI website. Actually, now I see that the ::gentoo version is the latter too, so it's different from the actual Artistic-1.0 license used in other packages x_x. [1] https://spdx.org/licenses/Artistic-1.0-Perl.html
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=9e96953253103e6292e3b2ed756b71f23883e8b8 commit 9e96953253103e6292e3b2ed756b71f23883e8b8 Author: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2022-11-22 17:53:33 +0000 Commit: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2022-11-22 17:53:33 +0000 licenses: Change Artistic to a template This covers both the original Artistic license and the license of Perl. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/881455 Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> licenses/Artistic | 211 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------- 1 file changed, 112 insertions(+), 99 deletions(-)
