Even the Constitution requires occasional amendment.
On 10/3/13 4:07 PM, "Gisi, Mark" wrote:
>Although I agree we want to avoid making changes to the license list,
>change is inevitable. An important consideration is that the SPDX 1.2
>spec (which is planned for release this month) includes a fi
LICENSE ID
I think I'm on the same page as Daniel. From "SPDX-License-Identifier:
MIT" someone ignorant of SPDX can infer/guess at the meaning, but you can
imagine one liners (like Bradley's suggestion "License:
spdx-license=IDENTIFIER") that would be more explicit from a human
perspective and equa
I understand the need to keep it simple for the sake of adoption. However, if
it is too simple we run the risk of mega-tagging doing more damage than good.
If one is concerned about pursuing Strong Compliance (where one tries, within
reason, to honor the license wishes of all applicable copyrigh
True. Still, the Constitution has only been amended 17 times (the bill of
rights were added in one fell swoop) in 226 years. That's roughly one
amendment every 13 years. :)
Thomas H. Vidal, Esq.
Abrams Garfinkel Margolis Bergson, LLP
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Gisi, Mark [mailto:mark.g...@windriver.com]:
> My main concern is: if we don't choose a sufficiently expressive syntax, and
> end up losing information, then we will have done more damage to SPDX than
> good. It needs to represent NOTICES and not just a single license.
Fair enough.
I very much
