On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 8:08 AM, Josh Boyer <jwbo...@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 8:03 AM, Haïkel <hgue...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I would like to get feedback from Fedora Legal and also my fellow > > contributors about considering > > SPDX. > > > > SPDX (Software Package Data Exchange) is a specification hosted by the > > Linux Foundation defining > > a standard format for communicating components, licenses and > > copyrights associated with a software package. > > https://spdx.org/ > > > > It would make it much easier collaborating with other distributions > > and upstream projects. > > > > On a more practical side, it would mean standardizing on SPDX short > > identifier to design licenses > > and exceptions in all our packages. > > https://spdx.org/spdx-license-list > > > > Your feedback? > > Can you elaborate on how you envision this working? SPDX appears to > work best when upstream projects integrate it and maintain it > themselves. Doing that downstream is possible, but it sounds both > time consuming and easy to get wrong or stale. > > josh > > I certainly wouldn't mind standardizing our License tags against this, as one of the distributions I am making packages for in my day job that uses RPM already uses this format. But like Josh said, a good part of what SPDX is about is getting projects themselves to communicate copyright and licensing in this form. I think it's infeasible to expect that. The extent of what we can do is provide useful information within the package that is somewhat SPDX compliant. I don't know if the nature of Linux distributions even would allow to make it fully compliant. -- 真実はいつも一つ!/ Always, there's only one truth!
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