On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 6:15 PM, Haïkel <hguemar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 I actually would like us to just allow it voluntarily all over, and that Rust SIG would just happen to be the first to do it. I think that's probably better than just an exception for 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. > I'm aware of the logical mapping, but I don't know of any implementations that attempt to go SPDX->Fedora automatically. I think it'd just be cumbersome, especially as SPDX identifiers grow as the license list is revised over time. I'd much rather skip all that and just start using them directly... > I still think that we should move to SPDX but maintaining consistency > within the distro is also important. > I don't disagree, but we need to start somewhere... -- 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
