Re: for discussion: license inclusion guidelines

2022-09-05 Thread Karsten Klein
Hi Jilayne, once in a while I come back with my yet informal proposal to treat new licenses in two stages: Stage 1 - Registration Register a license text providing a unique name and short id. (New) Registration guidelines only make sure no other SPDX license is duplicated / affected. This

Re: for discussion: when can people start using short ids?

2022-09-05 Thread Gary O'Neall
My vote is for #1 - The SPDX tools only uses the released license lists. If someone uses an ID before it is released, it may not pass validation. I'm OK with #2 with the understanding that other tools may not understand the license ID's until the release. I'm very much not in favor of #3, -

for discussion: license inclusion guidelines

2022-09-05 Thread J Lovejoy
Hi all, I just made a new issue to capture this, but wanted to raise it here for broader discussion. If we say that all OSI-approved are included on the SPDX License List, would we want to extend this to licenses that have been deemed to meet the Debian Free Software Guidelines, Fedora

for discussion: when can people start using short ids?

2022-09-05 Thread J Lovejoy
Hi all, >From our last call, the subject of 'when can people start using short ids? ‘ >came up. This has been asked before on individual license submissions and we >have answered informally, but it might be helpful to have a more official >stance and document it somewhere. The options I can

Re: stable spec URLs

2022-09-05 Thread J Lovejoy
Hi again, Now that 2.3 is out, this question is more pertinent: Note, if I want to link to a specific part of the SPDX spec, I can find it via the HTML format, for example: https://spdx.github.io/spdx-spec/v2.3/license-matching-guidelines-and-templates/