I am definitely open to ideas on how to make the license data/metadata more
portable/maintainable.

Tom

On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 1:38 PM David Cantrell <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> rpminspect performs a License tag validation on packages.  The license data
> comes from a JSON data file that I think was produced at some point from
> the
> Fedora charts on the wiki but then never really updated.  Consequently, it
> raises failures that are incorrect per current licensing data.
>
> The data for rpminspect comes from:
>      https://github.com/rpminspect/rpminspect-data-fedora
>
> The license data is in licenses/fedora.json
>
> The format should be somewhat easy to understand.  I didn't create it.  I
> found this database and ran with it.  I'd like to come up with a way to
> keep
> it in sync with the data on the wiki.  Right now I advise package
> maintainers
> to send me pull requests to update the data, but that's not going to be a
> long
> term solution.
>
> Anyone have any thoughts on this?  Ideas of how to keep the information up
> to
> date in all locations?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> David Cantrell <[email protected]>
> Red Hat, Inc. | Boston, MA | EST5EDT
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