On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 12:33 PM Ben Beasley <code@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
There are two relevant questions for mass conversion:
- Is there an unambiguous mapping from Callaway ID to SPDX ID?
- Are there other licenses that *should* be in the _expression_ since we no longer use the “effective license” concept?
The license-fedora2spdx tool can answer the first but not the second. There are a *lot* of packages for which the answer to both questions is “yes.” Is the plan to do mass conversion and hope that people follow up on auditing later?
I think that is the view. I do not fully share the view that this is a good approach, but I recognize that my views are in the minority. :)
Regarding the first point, there actually are no true unambiguous mappings from Callaway to SPDX. As I see it, in some (maybe even many) cases, what a Callaway name applies to (under a "correct" application of the associated legacy Fedora guidelines) may coincide reasonably closely to what we are saying an SPDX _expression_ applies to.
The point may be more significant. Under the Callaway system there was a confusing set of guidelines that seemed to both embrace and reject the notion of an "effective license". We have u
rejected the concept of the effective license (except possibly in some extreme scenarios)
rejected the concept of the effective license (except possibly in some extreme scenarios)
> On Feb 17, 2023, at 11:39 AM, Miro Hrončok <mhroncok@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 11. 02. 23 14:52, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
>> * 8795 tags can be trivially converted using `license-fedora2spdx`
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> Whenever I update a package to a new version etc. I look at the license tag and update it to SPDX when possible. It takes about 30 seconds. I wonder if we could mass change the 8795 tags sooner than later to save the 73 hours of manual work?
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