Re: SPDX Change for F37?

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On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 04:19:17PM +0200, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
> Dne 21. 04. 22 v 23:47 Jilayne Lovejoy napsal(a):
> > In terms of what needs to happen to start using SPDX license ids in new packages, particularly:
> > - the new license data base that maps SPDX ids to Fedora ids to be up
> > and running (David Cantrell is leading this work and making great
> > progress)
> 
> This is done, right?
> 
> https://github.com/rpminspect/rpminspect-data-fedora/blob/master/licenses/fedora.json

This file will be going away and replaced by a new license data project.

> > - Fedora licensing documentation to be updated as well, preferably
> > including a "human readable" table (like what's on the wiki currently)
> > to be up on the new Fedora-legal Docs section (Richard and I are working
> > on this currently)
> > 
> > Now that I think of it - I'm not sure this needs to be tied to a release, necessarily?
> 
> No. It does not need to be tied to release. But having it documented as
> Change Proposal give it good visibility. Both internaly and externaly.
> 
> > The other part of this is the question of how do we update all the
> > existing packages (efficiently) - some of which will require some amount
> > of "looking" at the actual license text to match it to an SPDX license
> > id for licenses Fedora has "categorized" (e.g., MIT, BSD, GPLx "with
> > exceptions") - That is a bigger task that will (ideally) need more of a
> > throught-through plan and will likely be on-going for a bit. I can't see
> > how updating all the existing packages would be tied to a release, but
> > more of a rolling effort that eventually is done (hopefully)
> 
> I can run `license-fedora2spdx(1)` (part of license-validate package) on all
> spec file. For those where the conversion is without ambiguity I can open
> PR. For the rest of the packages I can notify devel list and after grace
> period, start opening BZ for each package.
> 
> Miroslav

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