Re: SPDX identifiers in old branches?

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On Thursday, May 26, 2022 2:15:54 PM CDT Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> On 5/26/22 15:00, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
> > Other than the MIT case (and it should not be swept
> > under the rug), are there any substantial use of
> > licenses in Fedora where the Fedora license id
> > and the SPDX license id can lead to confusion
> > as to which is being specified?
> 
> Fedora uses 'BSD' for a variety of licenses, many of which have specific 
> SPDX identifiers. MIT and BSD are the most common problem areas for this 
> situation.

Plain "BSD" does not exist as a license in SPDX. I believe Gary is talking 
about license identifiers that exist in both SPDX and Fedora but have different 
meanings. This is the case for "MIT." (Edit: Gary confirmed this in the next 
email...)

It's also worth noting that "CDDL-1.0" and "CDDL-1.1" are in both SPDX and 
Fedora but refer to the same license. This is not the only example of a Fedora 
license identifier that also exists in SPDX and refers to the same license 
text. Assuming these license identifiers aren't combined with Fedora-only 
identifiers with "and" or "or", those won't need to be converted at all 
(besides by prepending "SPDX:" if we decide to go that route).

-- 
Thanks,

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

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