Thanks, everyone, for the quick responses! I've successfully built and run the tools from Github, and I found the sample RDF files within the repo.
On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 1:53 PM, Gary O'Neall <[email protected]> wrote: > Just following up on Bill's email, I would be happy to provide you any > information/background on using SPDX/RDF for Apache. Here's a bit more context: On my own initiative, I'm exploring SPDF as a general solution for documenting dependency licensing for Apache projects. See this thread I started yesterday on the Apache legal-discuss list: http://markmail.org/message/6435qziggbjyvy6u > I've also written a Maven plugin that generates SPDX/RDF files at > https://github.com/goneall/spdx-maven-plugin that may provide another > example application. This plugin would surely be very useful for any Maven-driven Java project, but for my purposes, it cannot be counted on as available -- in fact the pilot project is likely to be a C project. (There are a lot of Java projects at Apache, but the Foundation is actually technology-neutral.) It is not important to deliver anything concrete in the near term -- instead, the goal is to understand how much effort it would for *any* Apache project to generate SPDX data. The worst case is particularly important -- no Maven plugin, minimal XML expertise, etc. > Let me know what other information I can help with. What I envision as most helpful would be a tutorial which shows how to craft SPDX data manually for progressively more complex scenarios. * Start off with a single "hello world" source file. * Add several more source files under the same license. * Add a bundled dependency under the same license but with a different copyright holder. * Add a bundled dependency under a different license. * Add a seperately-downloaded dependency under a different license. * Generate a binary distribution. And so on. There are naturally many corner cases to deal with (which I'm sure comes as no surprise to you all), and I don't expect that such documentation exists because my use case is esoteric -- but I hope that communicates where I'm headed with this. Marvin Humphrey _______________________________________________ Spdx mailing list [email protected] https://lists.spdx.org/mailman/listinfo/spdx
