> Hello everyone, > > I've been reminded in private discussion that egg licensing status could > be clearer. To my knowledge, the last discussion on the topic happened > in 2020 and suggested that it may be made part of the C5 effort. Given > that C6 is around the corner, I'd like to revisit the idea again, but > with a slight difference: Upon egg review, salmonella (or an adjacent > tool) would check the license identifier field in the .egg file for SPDX > compliance. These egg reviews will happen during the C5->C6 migration > and I hope any unusual licensing situations will be uncovered thanks to > this. > > What do you think? >
Why not? What should happen if a license field is rejected? (I often prefer a plain "public domain", which I could not yet find on the SPDX license list). felix
