On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 10:24:44AM -0600, Jilayne Lovejoy wrote: > On 6/19/24 6:07 PM, Richard Fontana wrote: > > Relatedly, I have had some misgivings and mixed feelings about these > > mass conversions, because I have worried that the resulting situation > > will make people complacent regarding the correctness of the license > > tag. That is, they may assume that a converted license tag has some > > sort of implied stamp of approval. However, I've mostly gotten > > comfortable with the piecemeal > > mass conversions over time. I accept that we'll (still) have many > > inaccurate license tags, under our current documented standards, and > > we'll just have to gradually try to improve them. > +1 I also had a lot of misgivings. In addition to Richard's comments, I > think I've come to thinking that complacency is an issue no matter what and > any amount of auto-conversion is not likely to make that worse or better. > > > > I'm not sure it's really better to stick with Callaway license tags > > for some longer period of time in the hope that the *first* attempt to > > convert a package license tag to SPDX expressions will be relatively > > accurate. I do worry that if everyone is complacent about this, Fedora > > could become yet another project using SPDX expressions > > inappropriately. > really don't want that! > > In any case, Miro, I appreciate your observations and concerns. I think in > the long run, putting in place more specific advice and better tooling for > license review that is maybe even part of the packaging process would be > better. Even for the packages that were diligently updated to SPDX ids won't > stay up-to-date over time as packages change their licenses, etc. +1 for continuing the (imperfect) convertion to SPDX. For me the argument that the non-simplified licenses have to be periodically adjusted anyway to not become outdated is fairly convicing. I think we're better off having a possibly-incomplete SPDX format license than a possibly-incomplete-in-the-same-way Spot format license. We'll be better off having the whole distro converted to a consistent format, even if some of the tags still need to expanded later. Zbyszek -- _______________________________________________ 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
