If the idea is really to hunt down every license lurking in
every potentially popular public package, I can see how
distro adoption's a real big deal. Congrats! I worry about
more work for distro people, but suppose those chasing
completeness goals like this likely have financial support.
On the
> -Original Message-
> From: Spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org On Behalf Of
> James Bottomley
> Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2023 9:50 AM
>
> You could do the same for SPDX: give a way for a project to pick a unique tag
> and use it, supplying all the information the SPDX analysers require in
On Tue, 2023-01-24 at 21:56 -0800, J Lovejoy wrote:
> Thanks for this write-up, Richard.
>
> Having spent an exorbitant amount of my time over the years of my
> involvement in SPDX trying to politely say "no" to licenses for the
> reasons you describe below, I cannot begin to express how much I
Maybe start assigning ids for these with a format like vanity-xxx and that
might make people think twice about it and actually put some work into
really explaining why they need yet-another-license that does something
different from the standards so they can avoid the vanity label, which
On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 10:56 PM J Lovejoy wrote:
> Thanks for this write-up, Richard.
>
> Having spent an exorbitant amount of my time over the years of my
> involvement in SPDX trying to politely say "no" to licenses for the reasons
> you describe below, I cannot begin to express how much I
