If distros are seeing packaged-but-not-identified licenses in numbers to the point of pain, I'd suggest addressing that pain directly. Perhaps by laying a wider pipe from distros' workflows to SPDX's.
>From personal experience, the biggest blocks might actually be the XML schema and just reading through all the process doc. If SPDX had a special track for identification based on calls from popular distros, and the distros could submit plain text terms and have them formatted for inclusion by someone else, would that flush the backlog? I've pushed for new licenses. There's some contention for attention. But I've never been _against_ identification of any older terms, and they certainly have been, even as some of mine weren't. The SPDX list is five hundred-odd licenses. If someone cares enough about one more to present in format for inclusion, without name contention, let it be five hundred and one. Especially if that means less human drudgery somewhere else. As for motivations, I've sever seen SPDX identification as approval. I don't expect it's ever made a license popular. And I've yet to meet any dev who does. The proportion of coders who even know the list exists is tiny. Those who do, and who've spoken to me, just see a HashMap, akin to a protocol registry or MIME type list. Not a license club. It's clear where those are. The motivation I've seen and felt comes from where and how the list has been used. Not necessarily as originally intended. I've brought licenses here because package manager metadata warnings are annoying. I take it the distro people might be irked in similar ways. Both probably seem insubstantial, looking over from the other side. But a few kB of XML file in a GitHub repo is pretty cheap cure. -- Kyle Mitchell, attorney // Oakland // (510) 712 - 0933 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#3307): https://lists.spdx.org/g/Spdx-legal/message/3307 Mute This Topic: https://lists.spdx.org/mt/96510436/21656 Group Owner: spdx-legal+ow...@lists.spdx.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.spdx.org/g/Spdx-legal/unsub [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
