Re: rpmlint and SPDX licenses: W: invalid-license BSD-3-Clause

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On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 7:48 AM Miro Hrončok <mhroncok@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 31. 08. 22 13:39, Neal Gompa wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 5:50 AM Miro Hrončok <mhroncok@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello license folks.
> >>
> >> I see that Fedora's rpmlint is yet to be taught to understand SPDX:
> >>
> >> python3-lxml.x86_64: W: invalid-license BSD-3-Clause
> >> python3-lxml.x86_64: W: invalid-license MIT-CMU
> >>
> >> Is this support tracked somewhere? I know openSUSE already uses SPDX, so
> >> rpmlint probably knows how to read that. Right?
> >>
> >
> > rpmlint only knows what licenses we tell it, and the Fedora rpmlint
> > policy has not been updated yet because we want the
> > fedora-license-data package to produce the necessary TOML file that
> > rpmlint will source rather than me maintaining another copy of this.
> >
> > rpmlint will handle both Fedora style and SPDX license tags once we
> > have that data file in place.
>
> Great. Is this the file?
>
> https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/rpmlint/blob/rawhide/f/licenses.toml
>
> What's needed? Move this file to licenses-legacy.toml and install licenses.toml
> from fedora-license-data? I can do that.
>

Ideally, both files would come from there instead, since they will
maintain the list of allowed licenses there.

I filed an issue for it:
https://gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-license-data/-/issues/65


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Neal Gompa (FAS: ngompa)
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