Yes! We are closely following evolution of the SPDX standard. We will eventually align FOSSology to adopt the standard.
Mary Mary Laser The FOSSology Project http://fossology.org > -----Original Message----- > From: fossology-boun...@fossology.org [mailto:fossology- > boun...@fossology.org] On Behalf Of Roger Meier > Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 4:07 PM > To: fossology@fossology.org; s...@fossbazaar.org > Subject: [FOSSology] License Identifiers - FOSSology & SPDX > > Hi all > > I'm interested in using FOSSology and the SPDX standard for future > projects. > It would be great to have at least one well supported open source > software > solution like FOSSology which is using the SPDX standard. This will > help all > of us to be license compliant and economic whenever we use open source > software. > > However, SPDX is still in definition phase and it probably does not fit > perfectly to FOSSology. > The license meta data is a very important thing required to automate > license > analysis and that's the place where I've identified a mismatch, the > license > short name or license identifier. > > FOSSology has some very nice metadata for each license, e.g. > Date: 2004-01-01 00:00:00 > URL: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt > shortname: ASL v2.0 > fullname: Apache Software License v2.0 > OSIapproved: Yes > FSFfree: Yes > GPLv2compatible: No > GPLv3compatible: Yes > copyleft: No > notes: .... > for further details see > http://fossology.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/fossology/trunk/fossology/a > gents > /license_files/Apachev2.0.meta?revision=HEAD&view=markup > > SPDX is using its own license identifier: > Full name of License: Apache License 2.0 > License Identifier: Apache-2 > Source/URL: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 > Notes: This version was released: January 2004, This license is > OSI > certified > for further details see > http://www.spdx.org/wiki/working-version-license-list > > Are there any plans to align these identifiers? > Does somebody know some other standards used for license meta data? > > -roger > > _______________________________________________ > fossology mailing list > fossology@fossology.org > http://fossology.org/mailman/listinfo/fossology _______________________________________________ fossology mailing list fossology@fossology.org http://fossology.org/mailman/listinfo/fossology
