Gisi, Mark [mailto:mark.g...@windriver.com]: > My main concern is: if we don't choose a sufficiently expressive syntax, and > end up losing information, then we will have done more damage to SPDX than > good. It needs to represent NOTICES and not just a single license.
Fair enough. I very much like the idea of permitting a license *expression*, instead of one license. Fedora and Debian already do this, so this is a well-understood area. But that's not too difficult, just permit expressions with parentheses, "AND", and "OR". In many cases this would still be simple; here's an example of what I have in mind: SPDX-License-Notice: This file is licensed under the following terms: SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1 OR MPL-1.1 SPDX-License-More-Information: http://wiki.spdx.org/licenselist/spdx-1.1 In general, we all want both simplicity (so people will USE it) and expressiveness (so it can be USEFUL). The trick is getting there... --- David A. Wheeler _______________________________________________ Spdx-tech mailing list Spdx-tech@lists.spdx.org https://lists.spdx.org/mailman/listinfo/spdx-tech
