Based on the spdx legal team meeting on 8 June 8, 2017 we agreed that bullets should not do any formatting - it should only be used as a hint to any code doing matching that the text enclosed in the bullets is not to be used as part of the license text to be matched.
This resolves the issue. Thanks, Gary From: g...@sourceauditor.com [mailto:g...@sourceauditor.com] Sent: Thursday, June 8, 2017 9:42 AM To: 'SPDX-legal' Subject: Question on semantics for bullet tag I ran into an implementation issue in trying to convert the license XML into HTML for the website. The bullet tag is currently defined as an independent element. I implemented the bullet to do a newline before each bullet. For example: before <bullet>I am a bullet</bullet> After Would be rendered as: Before ● I am a bullet After The problem is if I include it in a list, the list item also generates a new line, so lists with bullet get an extra blank line. For example: before <list> <item> <bullet>I am a bullet</bullet> </item> </list> After Would be rendered as: Before ● I am a bullet After In looking at how HTML solves this, there is no bullet tag but rather an attribute of the list item. If we believe that we would only use bullets in a list, I would propose we change bullet from an element tag to an attribute of list item. I could implement some logic to handle this, but it would be somewhat convoluted and hard to describe when and how to use bullets. I realize this will require some rework for the licenses. I can, however, include a conversion from the element tag to the attribute in the xml conversion utility. This would localize the convoluted logic to the conversion and not to the standard code. I’ll be on the legal call for the first 30 minutes or so if you would like to discuss this. Thanks, Gary ------------------------------------------------- Gary O'Neall Principal Consultant Source Auditor Inc. Mobile: 408.805.0586 Email: g...@sourceauditor.com
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