Re: New tool - license-validate

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On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 3:10 PM Robbie Harwood <rharwood@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Neal Gompa <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 2:25 PM Robbie Harwood <rharwood@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> Neal Gompa <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >>
> >> > SPDX expression logic is identical to Fedora's, so that will not
> >> > change.
> >>
> >> I don't believe that's correct.
> >>
> >> For instance, for the LGPL, SPDX uses "LGPL-2.0-only" and
> >> "LGPL-2.0-or-later", while Fedora currently uses "LGPLv2" and "LGPLv2+".
> >>
> >> (From https://spdx.org/licenses/ and
> >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main )
> >>
> >
> > Those are the identifiers, not the *logic*. SPDX and Fedora both use
> > the same boolean logic terms ("and"/"or"/"with") and support
> > parenthetical expressions. Fedora mandates lowercase, SPDX doesn't
> > care, but examples historically are uppercase. Fedora will retain its
> > expression logic system, complete with lowercase terms (since that
> > makes the expressions more readable).
>
> Fine, but that's misleading in this context.  Right now the tool flags
> (and therefore bugs have been filed for) the identifiers as well.

Yes, and those should still happen. I'm saying that what
license-validate *does* and the code written for it will be useful
with SPDX identifiers or Fedora ones, because the meat of the tool
(the logical parsing and handling) would be the same.



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