On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 09:25:01AM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 8:40 AM Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> > wrote: > > > > On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 10:49:15AM +0200, Miroslav Suchý wrote: > > > Dne 25. 05. 22 v 2:44 Miro Hrončok napsal(a): > > > > 2) There are tags that might mean slightly different things in each > > > > notation. E.g. MIT. Is this package licensed with the SPDX MIT? Or is it > > > > a old-style MIT that might mean different SPDX notation? Note that the > > > > old-style MIT seems to be a superset of SPDX MIT, so this isn't probably > > > > getting worse than it is, it's just a tad confusing. > > > > > > I think that we can assume that if > > > > > > gitlog --pretty=oneline > > > > > > contains `spdx` or similar string, than the spec file use the new > > > notation. > > > > Ewwww, please no. Apps need to know whether a given RPM is using SPDX > > or not, independantly of whether they have Fedora git source history > > available. We just need to record this fact in the specfile explicitly, > > so it is available both to maintainers and to any apps parsing the > > spec and to any apps querying the installed RPMDB. > > > > I think people assume we do more with the License tag than we actually > do. We have no active automated auditing or validation of package license tags > at this time. That may come in later phases, and lead to total > conversion to SPDX identifiers, but right now, this is overthinking > the problem way too much.
I don't think it is overthinking. The change proposal says "There will be [[Changes/SPDX_Licenses_Phase_2|Phase 2]], where we identify the remaining packages and help them to migrate to the SPDX formula." so whatever we do in phase 1 needs to leave us in a state where we have a reliable way to identify outstanding packages needing converting in phase 2. I don't think relying on git logs is a satisfactory solution to that problem, compared to the suggestion to use 'License: SPDX: <tags>' in the spec which is unambiguous and explicit. With regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
