2017-02-23 15:31 GMT+01:00 Neal Gompa <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx>: > Hello all, > > I know that it's been discussed from time to time about using SPDX > identifiers for our license tags[1][2]. In the Rust SIG, we're > beginning the work to figure out the packaging of Rust things. Cargo, > the Rust equivalent of Python's pip, enforces the usage of SPDX > identifiers for license tags in the Cargo.toml (the file indicating > the metadata of a "crate"). > > If we're considering using SPDX identifiers for license tags (as it > appeared to be the case in Tom's FOSDEM talk[3]), would it be possible > to grant us the ability to just use that data instead of having to > attempt to maintain a mapping of SPDX to Fedora short tags? Since our > ecosystem in Fedora is basically zero right now, we could avoid the > ugliness right from the get-go. > This is just my opinion. 1. I do not see any justification to grant a specific exception *only* to the Rust SIG 2. The mapping is quite straightforward for most cases (Cf. the discussion on fedora-legal), so technically it's not uglier than what other languages packaging utilities do. For example, this is how pyp2rpm converts pypi classifiers into Fedora short tags, this is quite simple code. https://github.com/fedora-python/pyp2rpm/blob/87f25610ef957a0738f31b217b8017cd2b1325d3/pyp2rpm/utils.py#L90 https://github.com/fedora-python/pyp2rpm/blob/87f25610ef957a0738f31b217b8017cd2b1325d3/pyp2rpm/settings.py#L23 For SPDX, it can't be more complex, I would even say it should be even simpler. I still think that we should move to SPDX but maintaining consistency within the distro is also important. Regards, H. > Thanks and best regards, > Neal > > [1]: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/thread/2BU5JTWLCQWRSPMORNPJLOPLDYHINGMV/ > [2]: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/thread/YT7A6MROI3CZNNEKO6RKLD3GG7NNL2LU/ > [3]: https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/fedoras_legal_state/ > > > -- > 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ legal mailing list -- legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to legal-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
