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New license request: Sendmail-2009 [SPDX-Online-Tools] #2565
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Note that @richardfontana has already done some investigation in https://gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-license-data/-/issues/568#note_2117606078 that is worth reading. |
So I had written a comment preparing to recommend adding this with the ID I'm not familiar with the history of Sendmail, but it looks to me like there might be two separate licenses (closely related, but separate lineage):
The reason I think these are separate "threads" of licenses, rather than the 2007 / 2009 just being an earlier version of those on the list currently, is that I've also found a 2003 version of the "Sendmail License" at: https://athena10.mit.edu/trac/browser/trunk/third/sendmail/LICENSE?rev=21373&desc=1. This is nearly identical to the versions on the list now (those in item 1 above); but it pre-dates the "Sendmail Open Source License" versions in item 2 above, suggesting that those were separately developed in parallel. The reason I'm going into this level of detail is that I think the version submitted in this issue is perhaps more properly framed as the "Sendmail Open Source License", perhaps with an ID like |
Note also https://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/sm-X/, from 2006, which indicates: "Sendmail X had a slightly different LICENSE than sendmail 8 until 2006-05-19." This may help point to why these separate licenses exist, though I don't have more time at this moment to dig deeper unfortunately... |
Some of the changes seem "clarifying" or just more succinct than the original language but there is enough that has changed substantively that I vote for giving this an version bump on the 8.16 version of the SendMail license. For instance, this language "For the purposes of redistribution "Source Code" means the complete human-readable, compilable and, linkable source code of sendmail, and operational source code of the redistributed module(s) including all modifications" refines the parameters of what "source code" means. Plus a choice of law was added (additional restriction?). |
also would be good to add clarifying notes on existing Sendmail variants and this one |
License Inclusion DecisionDecision:
NameSendmail Open Source License v1.1 License ID
XML markupSimilar to markup used for Notes:Next stepsIf the license has been accepted, please follow the accepted-license process to create the PR. |
1. License Name: Sendmail 2009 License
2. Short identifier: Sendmail-2009
3. License Author or steward: Unknown
4. Comments: This license was discovered during Fedora's Linux license review in https://gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-license-data/-/issues/568
5. License Request Url: http://tools.spdx.org/app/license_requests/393
6. URL(s): https://github.com/trusteddomainproject/OpenDMARC/blob/master/LICENSE.Sendmail
7. OSI Status: Unknown
8. Example Projects: https://github.com/trusteddomainproject/OpenDMARC
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