Re: Commutativity of SPDX expressions

2022-07-18 Thread Gary O'Neall
I've always assumed the AND and OR operators to be commutative and the SPDX Java tools take full advantage of the commutative properties when comparing license expressions. I would welcome a pull request to Annex D to clarify this since at least one member of the community found this ambiguous

Re: Commutativity of SPDX expressions

2022-07-18 Thread Sebastian Crane
Dear Gary, > I've always assumed the AND and OR operators to be commutative and > the SPDX Java tools take full advantage of the commutative > properties when comparing license expressions. > > I would welcome a pull request to Annex D to clarify this since at > least one member of the community f

Re: Commutativity of SPDX expressions

2022-07-18 Thread Gary O'Neall
Thanks Sebastian - since we haven't finished the review of the version 2.3, I think there is still time. Best regards, Gary > -Original Message- > From: Spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org On Behalf Of > Sebastian Crane > Sent: Monday, July 18, 2022 9:13 AM > To: Spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org > Subjec

Re: Commutativity of SPDX expressions

2022-07-18 Thread Richard Fontana
I feel like what some projects might find useful is something like: SPDX-License-Identifier-Concluding-What's-Been-Contributed-As-Of-Some-Past-Time: SPDX-License-Identifier-Of-What's-Been-Contributed-After-That-Past-Time-And-Default-License-of-Future-Contributions: since these might point to diff