RE: SPDX meta-tag for implicit license terms

2013-12-10 Thread Gisi, Mark
>> Instead, they rely on the fact that they inherit the global, project-wide >> license as defined in the top >> level README and COPYING files. Although a global license file is a commonly used approach, I would categorize it as a "bad" practice from a license compliance perspective. It is ana

Re: SPDX meta-tag for implicit license terms

2013-12-10 Thread kate . stewart
Hello Wolfgang, >- Original Message - >From: Wolfgang Denk >To: spdx-t...@lists.spdx.org; spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org >Cc: "Meier, Roger" >Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2013 4:09 AM >Subject: SPDX meta-tag for implicit license terms > >Hello, > >after converting the U-Boot project to use SP

AW: SPDX meta-tag for implicit license terms

2013-12-10 Thread Fendt, Oliver
Hi, As far as I under stood the standard one would express this kind of association (file without license information - is assumed to be licensed under the "conluded" license of the package) with the following elements on file level: LicenseInfoInFile: NONE License concluded: SPDX Identifier of

SPDX meta-tag for implicit license terms

2013-12-10 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Hello, after converting the U-Boot project to use SPDX meta-tags, we now started working on another Open Source project; here we face a somewhat different situation: a large number of the individual source files do not contain any per-file license header at all. Instead, they rerely on the fact