On Montag, 6. Januar 2020 14:54:37 CET Jonathan Riddell wrote: > Well done on taking the lead on this, it seems like a nice step forward in > making our licencing clear and consistent. > > Your changes to the policy all seem sensible. > > You have kept the licence paragraphs for the file headers in the policy? > Is that needed now with REUSE and SPDX? Can it not just be a line for > SPDX-FileCopyrightText and one for SPDX-License-Identifier in the files > themselves now?
Hi, the license header paragraphs are not needed with SPDX and it is actually best to remove them completely to avoid ambiguity. Yet, I think we need a transitions phase for which we will see both variants in our repository. I tried to define this with the new "either" constraint in bullet point 3. I.e., there are two choices, one for SPDX annotations and one for traditional license headers. But I can make this more prominent that the traditional headers are deprecated and one should not add both information. Cheers, Andreas
