Vladimir Sitnikov created MNG-6677:
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Summary: Ability to declare machine-readable license identifier
for project
Key: MNG-6677
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-6677
Project: Maven
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: POM
Affects Versions: 3.6.1
Reporter: Vladimir Sitnikov
Current model for license is something, yet it is not machine-friendly.
Developers tend to put random data into
{{<license><name>...</name><url>...</url>}}, and it is hard to analyze in
automatic way.
What if we could use SPDX license identifiers/expressions for license
information?
Note: currently POM is allowed to list multiple <license> tags, and it is not
clear how they should be treated (and? or?).
So it would be nice if there was a way to declare a machine-readable license
tag.
I'm not affiliated with SPDX, however OSGi use those ids:
https://osgi.org/specification/osgi.core/7.0.0/framework.module.html#framework.module-bundle-license
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