Wolfgang, I liked Bradley's suggestion for syntax of the one-liner because it was also short, but slightly more explicit about the intention. I agree that an explanation in a readme could make this clear, but I think we are trying to handle the case when the file might turn up in another project without the readme file. In this case there is some benefit to something equally compact, but slightly clearer to a human. Phil
On 10/6/13 2:37 PM, "Wolfgang Denk" <w...@denx.de> wrote: >Dear Philip Odence, > >In message <ce743159.d5166%pode...@blackducksoftware.com> you wrote: >> LICENSE ID >> I think I'm on the same page as Daniel. From "SPDX-License-Identifier: >> MIT" someone ignorant of SPDX can infer/guess at the meaning, but you >>can >> imagine one liners (like Bradley's suggestion "License: >> spdx-license=IDENTIFIER") that would be more explicit from a human >> perspective and equally easy for a machine to recognize. > >Is this really so? > >The (one-line_ license tag in a file that is part of a bigger >software project is actually already redundant information, just >condensed to the minimally needed information and presented in a >format that is easy to process automatically. > >It has never been my understanding or intention that this should be >the _only_ information about license terms for the project - as is, >you will always need some README that explains how hte project as a >whole is licensed, and how individual files (which may come, for >example, dual-licensed, or liensed under a different, but compatible >license) are marked as such. > >But this is global information that should be presented just once, and >it should be not necessary to repeat any of that in the per-file >license tags. > >Best regards, > >Wolfgang Denk > >-- >DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel >HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany >Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de >We see things not as they are, but as we are. - H. M. Tomlinson _______________________________________________ Spdx-legal mailing list Spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org https://lists.spdx.org/mailman/listinfo/spdx-legal
