On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 12:15 PM, Haïkel <hgue...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > 2015-07-09 16:49 GMT+02:00 Richard Fontana <rfont...@redhat.com>: >> On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 04:41:00PM +0200, Haďkel wrote: >>> From my PoV, the abbreviation system is already an improvement, >>> if it's commonly shared with other distros (and Suse already switched to >>> it). >> >> I don't see how it's an improvement if the underlying meaning of the >> abbreviations is not standardized. Does "BSD" as an abbreviation mean >> the same thing in Suse as it does in Fedora? I don't know but I am >> skeptical. >> > > If it weren't then it would have no meaning at all. > A nomenclature has no interest if there's no common definition!
Which is _exactly_ the problem Richard, Spot, and Adam have conveyed. SPDX and common opensource nomenclature do not match at all and switching to SPDX runs a very real risk of making things even more confusing. Haikel, you have said several times that you wanted the input of Fedora legal. You have gotten responses from both the main Fedora legal contact point (Spot) and an actual lawyer (Richard, whom would likely advise that he is not giving legal advice) that making this change would not be beneficial. I suggest we lean on their expertise and let this idea go. josh -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
