Re: SPDX identifiers in old branches?

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On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 07:27:51AM -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Gary Buhrmaster <gary.buhrmaster@xxxxxxxxx> said:
> > The follow up suggested that the license
> > field be differently formatted.
> > 
> > I disagree with such explanatory
> > prefixes, as it requires yet more apps
> > to parse/support various prefixes.
> 
> No, my suggestion of using "License: SPDX:<foo>" would not require any
> additional changes.  Anything that cares about the License field will
> already need changes to recongize the SPDX values; this would just
> remove any ambiguity.  And as very little parses the License field, so
> there's not some big effort to update required in any case.

Yes, the value of using SPDX is that it is an unambigious machine
parseable format. If we don't have a way to determine whether a
given Fedora specfile is using SPDX or legacy names, then we
diminish the value of performing the change, because we remain
ambiguous.

So using this suggestion of 'License: SPDX:<foo>' will be useful
both for apps that are querying RPMs at runtime, and for ourselves
as maintainers to know when all packages in rawhide have finished
being converted by their maintainers and/or provenpackagers.

With regards,
Daniel
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