On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 1:23 PM Ján Tomko <jtomko@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Replace the license blurb in every single file with: > SPDX-License-Identifier: <human-readable-string> > Coincidentally, this is also machine readable. > > This identifies the few places that use GPL-3.0 (syntax-check), > some places that mistakenly changed the blurb > (patches 1/20 and 4/20). > > The other variations were period vs. semicolon at various places > and double vs. single space before 'If not, write...' > I'm really not a fan of this. While I don't mind the idea of having the machine-readable identifier, you're eliminating one more venue in which someone would *actually* learn about the license and have the opportunity to learn about the philosophy of Free Software. I know that Linux and systemd have already done this, but I feel like this is a huge mistake. One of the reasons why the license header exists the way it does is to inform people of the concept of Free Software as a whole whenever they look at the sources, in the hope that someone would be interested and make their own. Finally, SPDX-License-Identifier tag is not stable, as the SPDX license identifiers themselves are not stable (they are versioned, and change across versions). I would really prefer that versioned tags be used if we used it, since that allows for the correct reference to work. For example, I have done this in one project: # Fedora-License-Identifier: GPLv2+ # SPDX-2.0-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ # SPDX-3.0-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth!
