Re: [spdx-tech] SPDX short-form IDs site

2018-04-12 Thread W. Trevor King
On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 08:14:30PM -0700, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote: > I suggest modifying the tutorial at https://spdx.org/ids to address > the issue head-on, with perhaps a explanation on why you would carry > license information in individual files at all. The *only* reason > it's useful to do so

Re: [spdx-tech] SPDX short-form IDs site

2018-04-12 Thread Bradley M. Kuhn
My concern about https://spdx.org/ids is that its current drafting helps to perpetuate the fiction that licenses apply primarily to individual "files", not works, as if files on a filesystem have some real connection with copyrightability, boundries in copyright, and/or how licenses apply to