Re: Fwd: License: GPL-3.0-or-later AND GPL-2.0-or-later

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On Tue, Mar 14 2023 at 10:01:06 AM -0400, David Cantrell <dcantrell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
And as part of the US Executive Order on Cybersecurity, we need to start using SPDX identifiers in software we package and provide so that our downstream
users are in compliance:

If you rely on this then you're up a creek, because ***Fedora License identifiers will rarely be accurate***. Wishing for them to be accurate won't make it so. Who is going to do the work of reassessing the License field every package update?

Switching to use SPDX was good, but it still has to be curated by a human.

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