Re: F38 Proposal: SPDX License Phase 1 (Self-Contained Change proposal)

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On Tuesday, May 17, 2022 10:06:44 AM CDT Miroslav Suchý wrote:
> > Do we need to %if-%else it in the spec file? I recall some discussion about this on the legal list, but I see no 
> > guidelines proposed here. 
> 
> If you maintain one spec for all branches then you will need %if-%else. And yes, it works.
> 
If that ends up being the policy, it would be nice if there was a convenience macro that was set to 1 on branches that allow SPDX identifiers.

Also, are we going to have some way of marking which packages have been converted and which haven't? This will be a problem with `MIT` licensed specfiles, for instance, because the license identifier means something different in Fedora land than it does in SPDX.

> * Convert license string to SPDX formula:
>     $ license-fedora2spdx 'MIT or GPLv1'
> 
>     Warning: more options how to interpret MIT. Possible options:
> ['Adobe-Glyph', 'MIT-CMU', 'MIT-CMU', 'HPND', 'HPND', 'no-spdx-yet
> (MIT license (also X11))', 'SGI-B-2.0', 'SGI-B-2.0', 'SMLNJ',
> 'MIT-enna', 'MIT-feh', 'mpich2']
> 
>     mpich2 or GPL-1.0-only

-- 
Thanks,

Maxwell G (@gotmax23)
Pronouns: He/Him/His

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