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Vladimir Sitnikov commented on MNG-6677: ---------------------------------------- {quote}Please make a proposal how you would like the next POM version look like.{quote} For instance: {code:xml} <licenseExpression>(Apache-2.0 AND MIT) OR (Apache-2.0 AND BSD-3-Clause)</licenseExpression> <licenses> <license> <name>Tomcat BSD-Style License</name> <url>tomcat.apache.org/license-bsd.txt</url> </license> <license> <name>Tomcat MIT-Style License</name> <url>tomcat.apache.org/license-mit.txt</url> </license> </licenses> {code} > 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 > Priority: Major > > 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 allows to list multiple <license> tags, and it is not > clear how they should be treated (and? or?). So a machine-readable field > should probably allow for AND/OR license expressions. > 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 -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)