Hi, On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 03:22:49PM +0200, Karsten Merker wrote: > Package: debmake > Version: 4.3.1-1 > Severity: wishlist > > Hello, > > more and more upstream projects (including a number of high-profile > ones such as the Linux kernel) are moving to including SPDX license > identifiers (https://spdx.org/ids) instead of the full license text > (in case of BSD- and MIT-style licenses) respectively the > short-form (L)GPL notice in their source files. These identifiers > are intended to make the license a piece of code is distributed > under easily machine-parsable while keeping them human-readable. > > Examples: > --------- > SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause > SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 > SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later > > Currently "debmake -cc" doesn't recognize the SPDX IDs and flags > all files using them as ""License: __UNKNOWN__". It would be great > if you could extend the patterns that "debmake -cc" matches on for > recognizing the various licenses to include the corresponding SPDX > license identifiers. A list of the identifiers and the > corresponding full license text is available at > https://spdx.org/licenses/.
Thanks but I am leaning toward dropping this part of code and replace it with external tool. I don't think I have time and energy to keep it maintained ... licensecheck should do a good job I think. What do you think of licensecheck by mostly from Jonas Smedegaard. I think he is doing a good job. Osamu
