On Thu, 2026-05-28 at 11:06 -0600, Joshua Watt via lists.openembedded.org wrote: > What follow is a proposal to allow our recipe LICENSE variable to be > interpreted as valid SPDX licenses expressions; as proposed the LICENSE > variables would not need to be mass converted to SPDX expressions immediately, > as there would be code in place to do a conversion from the current LICENSE > value to a valid SPDX expression.
Thanks for putting this together. I'm basically in favour, it has long been our intent to clean this all up. > > Mappings can be provided for the legacy expressions that had exceptions in > SPDXLICENSEMAP to allow the legacy license IDs to be continued to be used, > for example: > > SPDXLICENSEMAP[GPL-2.0-with-Linux-syscall-note] = > "GPL-2.0-only WITH Linux-syscall-note" > I was looking at the current situation and I think we already advised people to move away from things using SPDXLICENSEMAP with tools like scripts/contrib/convert-spdx-licenses.py. Could we drop the current contents of SPDXLICENSEMAP now? In theory everyone already migrated those? Cheers, Richard
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