On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 12:49 PM, Robert Goldman <rpgold...@sift.net> wrote: > On 10/16/15 Oct 16 -2:03 PM, Faré wrote: >> I propose we document that the license field should if possible >> contain an identifier from >> http://spdx.org/licenses/ >> http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6867 > > Do you expect this field to be a string, or should it be encoded in some > special way (e.g., a keyword representation of the identifier)? > > If we do the latter, we could check it but (a) this would bloat ASDF > further and (b) it would incur a maintenance debt in perpetuity as the > set of SPDX identifiers changes. > > One more question: What if the software is NOT open source? > I was considering just a string for now, as has always been. Then a linter could go over the packages in Quicklisp and check that they are all open source with a proper SPDX license string. For closed source code, I don't know — probably "Proprietary" or something would do — or just anything not valid per SPDX.
—♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• http://fare.tunes.org ...so this guy walks into a bar. "The usual, Mr. Descartes?" the barman asked. "I think not," Rene replied, and promptly disappeared.
