On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 8:01 AM Richard Shaw <hobbes1069@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > So subject kind of says it all, but to follow up, when I google Fedora known good licenses I get this: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main#SoftwareLicenses > > Which uses the old license identifiers, so there's that. And licensecheck is a PITA because I have to always add "--shortname-scheme=spdx" and it still doesn't give it to us in the format we want. > > Sure I could make my own script or alias to do this, and I hate to be a broken record but maybe people would adopt the new format faster if we gave them the tools to make it easy. > > I have about 5% of the time I used to be able to devote to packaging these days. The Expat license is the MIT license. Debian identifies this differently from both Fedora and SPDX, hence the difference from licensecheck (which is from Debian). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License#License_terms This is why I don't recommend using *any* short identifiers in license auditing tools. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
