On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 09:20:54AM -0800, g...@sourceauditor.com wrote: > If we were to update the license matching guidelines to explicitly > ignore these, the tools could skip them without having to add the > alt and/or optional tags to the license XMLs.
Alt/optional aren't all that difficult, and we need them anyway for variations in potentially-substantive text. I'm in favor of continuing to use them explicitly in the XML for this case, and would like to see us gradually *reduce* the size of the matching guidelines [1]. A handful of [2]: <p>Bootloader Exception<alt match="-*" name="titleUnderline"/></p> and similar in our XML doesn't seem like it would be hard to add, review, or maintain. And by not special-casing this issue, we make life easier on folks implementing matching tools, since they have one fewer guideline to handle. Cheers, Trevor [1]: https://spdx.org/spdx-license-list/matching-guidelines [2]: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/blob/v3.0/src/exceptions/Bootloader-exception.xml#L9 -- This email may be signed or encrypted with GnuPG (http://www.gnupg.org). For more information, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy
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