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Bug#1029055: MIT License Text



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Hi,

thanks for the separate bug report.

Soren Stoutner wrote:
> I just noticed that AppStream specifies that their licenses use the text listed by SPDX.
> 
> As the text of the MIT License at https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT.html[1] is the same as the 
> Debian MIT License (Expat) at https://www.debian.org/legal/licenses/mit (except for the 
> instructions in blue),

As mentioned before exactly that exception is the reason why I think
that these two license texts are not the same. I though see no
explanation what the meaning of the colors on the SPDX website is.
Until that is clarified, for me, the two texts clearly differ for me.

		Regards, Axel
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