On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Lamons, Scott (Open Source Program Office) <scott.lam...@hp.com> wrote: > Thanks for updating this page. In particular for adding the rationale for > why tagging is important in the Introduction section. For me, the main > impetus of adding the license tag is to automate the production of accurate > SPDX data. To the extent that licensing headers are already included in > the file I’m not a fan of replacing that with the tag – rather, I think our > (the SPDX workgroup that is) recommendation or best practice should be that > the tag should supplement the other licensing information. But, in the > end, it is the ultimate choice of the copyright holder of the software > because they will be the party implementing this should they choose to > adopt.
Following this rational, would it be possible to recommend something in the line of: BEGIN_LICENSE This file is licensed under the <SPDX_LICENSE_IDENTIFIER> For more information see URL-TO-SPDX-WEB-SITE-WITH-iNFO END_LICENSE that makes three things explicit: * It says where the license info in -file is (BEGIN, END_LICENSE) * It explicitly states the file is licensed under the given licence * It says where to get more information to understand what it means. Jack's way of doing it, by just naming the license feels too cryptic to me if I am reading the header, and does not explicitly state it is the license under which the file is made available to others --dmg -- --dmg --- Daniel M. German http://turingmachine.org _______________________________________________ Spdx-tech mailing list Spdx-tech@lists.spdx.org https://lists.spdx.org/mailman/listinfo/spdx-tech
