Re: [arch-dev-public] Using SPDX License list as identifiers

2019-10-22 Thread Morten Linderud via arch-dev-public
On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 01:59:48PM +0200, Jerome Leclanche wrote: > Hi > > This just came up on IRC. Thoughts on using the SPDX license list as valid > license identifiers for all packages? > https://spdx.org/licenses/ I like this idea. I started looking into how this would be packaged. The

Re: [arch-dev-public] Using SPDX License list as identifiers

2019-10-22 Thread Ivy Foster via arch-dev-public
On 22 Oct 2019, at 12:43 pm -0500, Ivy Foster wrote: > [] some licenses have optional exception clauses developers can > add which might not be reflected in a standard Arch font array [] That's *license* array, not font array. Learn from my mistakes: proofread your emails! signature.asc

Re: [arch-dev-public] Using SPDX License list as identifiers

2019-10-22 Thread Jonas Witschel via arch-dev-public
On 2019-10-22 15:01, Allan McRae via arch-dev-public wrote: >> It would also be a >> little more accurate; eg. the SPDX allows for distinctions such as >> "LGPL-3.0-or-later" vs. "LGPL-3.0-only". > > I thought we already managed that, but it seems in rather limited use > these days looking at

Re: [arch-dev-public] Using SPDX License list as identifiers

2019-10-22 Thread Ivy Foster via arch-dev-public
On 22 Oct 2019, at 1:59 pm +0200, Jerome Leclanche wrote: > This just came up on IRC. Thoughts on using the SPDX license list as valid > license identifiers for all packages? > https://spdx.org/licenses/ > Most of the identifiers would change but we would have a consistent and > much larger,

Re: [arch-dev-public] Using SPDX License list as identifiers

2019-10-22 Thread Allan McRae via arch-dev-public
On 22/10/19 9:59 pm, Jerome Leclanche wrote: > It would also be a > little more accurate; eg. the SPDX allows for distinctions such as > "LGPL-3.0-or-later" vs. "LGPL-3.0-only". I thought we already managed that, but it seems in rather limited use these days looking at our -Si output. e.g.

[arch-dev-public] Using SPDX License list as identifiers

2019-10-22 Thread Jerome Leclanche
Hi This just came up on IRC. Thoughts on using the SPDX license list as valid license identifiers for all packages? https://spdx.org/licenses/ Most of the identifiers would change but we would have a consistent and much larger, externally-maintained list to choose from. It would also be a little