Details
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Question
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Status: Closed
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Major
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Resolution: Fixed
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Description
A lot of organizations and developers provide their source under permissive licenses that are not 100% copies of the licenses approved in category A.
Examples of typical cases can be seen in
http://www.math.washington.edu/tex-archive/fonts/utilities/mm/parseAFM.h
http://opensource.apple.com/source/X11/X11-0.40/xc/lib/Xrender/Xrender.h
https://github.com/martinkahr/apple_remote_control/blob/master/AppleRemote.h
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=sane/sane-backends.git;a=blob;f=include/sane/sane.h;hb=HEAD
http://www.twain.org/license.shtm
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How should one handle them? Submit a JIRA issue for each file with a license that is not 100% identical to the ones already categorized or are there general rules to auto-categorize them?