On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 9:41 AM David Cantrell <dcantrell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > We did portray this as a re-audit and not simply a change in abbreviations. I did many presentations on just that and we held numerous hack fests where we helped people analyze packages to determine the correct license expression in SPDX. > > There are definitely maintainers who thought it was just a change in abbreviations and I do not think there is an easy way to stop that. But as we have been going through this process, the number of maintainers auditing packages has been high and we are seeing more licenses captured and added to SPDX that were not previously represented. +1. Whatever else one thinks of the changes over the past year, this 'license re-audit' side effect has been a great ongong success and improvement for Fedora and its downstreams, probably without parallel in Linux distributions (apart from Debian), and also has resulted in a vast improvement to SPDX. Richard _______________________________________________ legal mailing list -- legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to legal-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
