RE: Starting to work on tools for the new XML license

Good points. On #1, if I publish the web pages to spdx.org/licenses/preview a manual review of the license text could be performed - a bit labor intensive, but possible. I like the idea of #2 - It would require maintaining the original text files along with the XML for test purposes. We

Re: Starting to work on tools for the new XML license

Would this also be an opportune time to think about/discuss (1) a one-time check that our manual modifications haven't borked the text? and (2) some type of continuous integration or unit testing to make sure our changes don't screw up matching against texts we believe should always match? --

RE: Starting to work on tools for the new XML license

I do think we'll want some sort of XML manifest; we need at least somewhere to define the synonyms, among other bits. From: Gary O'Neall [mailto:g...@sourceauditor.com] Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2016 14:26 To: Kris.re ; 'J Lovejoy' ; 'SPDX-legal'

Starting to work on tools for the new XML license

Hi Kris, Jilayne and legal team, I'm seeing a lot of activity on the XML licenses, so I started looking into expanding the tools that generate the website to support the new XML format. Here's what I'm currently thinking: - write a new command line tool which takes three parameters, a tag