On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 04:19:17PM +0200, Miroslav Suchý wrote: > Dne 21. 04. 22 v 23:47 Jilayne Lovejoy napsal(a): > > In terms of what needs to happen to start using SPDX license ids in new > > packages, particularly: > > - the new license data base that maps SPDX ids to Fedora ids to be up > > and running (David Cantrell is leading this work and making great > > progress) > > This is done, right? > > https://github.com/rpminspect/rpminspect-data-fedora/blob/master/licenses/fedora.json
This file will be going away and replaced by a new license data project. > > - Fedora licensing documentation to be updated as well, preferably > > including a "human readable" table (like what's on the wiki currently) > > to be up on the new Fedora-legal Docs section (Richard and I are working > > on this currently) > > > > Now that I think of it - I'm not sure this needs to be tied to a release, > > necessarily? > > No. It does not need to be tied to release. But having it documented as > Change Proposal give it good visibility. Both internaly and externaly. > > > The other part of this is the question of how do we update all the > > existing packages (efficiently) - some of which will require some amount > > of "looking" at the actual license text to match it to an SPDX license > > id for licenses Fedora has "categorized" (e.g., MIT, BSD, GPLx "with > > exceptions") - That is a bigger task that will (ideally) need more of a > > throught-through plan and will likely be on-going for a bit. I can't see > > how updating all the existing packages would be tied to a release, but > > more of a rolling effort that eventually is done (hopefully) > > I can run `license-fedora2spdx(1)` (part of license-validate package) on all > spec file. For those where the conversion is without ambiguity I can open > PR. For the rest of the packages I can notify devel list and after grace > period, start opening BZ for each package. > > Miroslav > _______________________________________________ > legal mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > 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/[email protected] > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure -- David Cantrell <[email protected]> Red Hat, Inc. | Boston, MA | EST5EDT _______________________________________________ legal mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] 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/[email protected] Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
