Re: Proposal: Add "(IF THEN [ELSE ])" to License expressions

2016-05-11 Thread Philippe Ombredanne
On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 11:56 PM, Wheeler, David A wrote: > In the Linux Foundation CII “best practices” badge effort I’m noticing an > interesting problem. Some projects have *different* license situations for > their source code and documentation, but there’s no simple way to express > that usi

RE: Proposal: Add "(IF THEN [ELSE ])" to License expressions

2016-05-11 Thread Gary O'Neall
ech- > boun...@lists.spdx.org] On Behalf Of Philippe Ombredanne > Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2016 3:13 PM > To: Wheeler, David A > Cc: spdx-tech@lists.spdx.org > Subject: Re: Proposal: Add "(IF THEN > [ELSE ])" to License expressions > > On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 11

RE: Proposal: Add "(IF THEN [ELSE ])" to License expressions

2016-05-12 Thread Wheeler, David A
Philippe Ombredanne [mailto:pombreda...@nexb.com]> >Could this be simplified? > I can see two use cases: > 1. at the file or directory level, this is unlikely needed: just provide the > expression that applies there only e.g. to a doc or source directory in an > SPDX doc or a simple expression.

Re: Proposal: Add "(IF THEN [ELSE ])" to License expressions

2016-05-13 Thread Philippe Ombredanne
On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 6:06 PM, Wheeler, David A wrote: > Philippe Ombredanne [mailto:pombreda...@nexb.com]> > >>Could this be simplified? >> I can see two use cases: >> 1. at the file or directory level, this is unlikely needed: just provide >> theexpression that applies there only e.g. to a do

RE: Proposal: Add "(IF THEN [ELSE ])" to License expressions

2016-05-16 Thread Wheeler, David A
Philippe Ombredanne: > I suggest instead to change this application design and data model to track > several license expressions, one for each of your "keywords". > For instance, by storing a list of expressions and what they apply to or by > breaking down top level packages in sub-packages each