That's an interesting idea. Is there a known repository for license texts which are not standard? I see SPDX uses a LicenseRef-<ID> kind of reference, but it's not clear what that is referencing. Just another field inside the XML in the case of AppStream, I suppose?
On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 9:58 PM, Neal Gompa <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 5:35 PM, Mark Shuttleworth <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > We should allow a plaintext field there for this situation. Yes, go > > ahead with "Other open source". > > > > It would probably make sense to support SPDX license tags and > expressions[1]. This is used in AppStream, so a great amount of > software is already classified in this manner. Furthermore, openSUSE > uses SPDX tags for their license metadata for packages, and Debian > uses a subset of it as part of the copyright file structure in Debian > Source Control packaging. > > While we in Fedora use our own license tag list[2] that predates SPDX > (used by a great deal of Linux distributions), we maintain a mapping > to SPDX for AppStream support. > > Having verifiable license information (either Fedora style or SPDX > style) is also useful for ensuring things are "compatible" or > "desired" on a system, depending on whatever preference you may have. > > [1]: https://spdx.org/licenses/ > [2]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main#Software_License_List > > -- > 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! > > -- > Snapcraft mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailm > an/listinfo/snapcraft > -- gustavo @ http://niemeyer.net
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