On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 03:49:08PM -0800, [email protected] wrote: > The tool that generates the license-list-data and spdx.org/licenses > website is currently adding optional tags and var (or alt to use the > license-list-XML term) tags around the title and bullets > respectively. > > I found this to be necessary to match the text from the previous > license list text where there were different bullet formats and > different title texts for a small number of licenses. It should > also help consumers of the license templates do a better job of > matching per the license matching guidelines. > > These changes are consistent with the license matching guidelines, > however, I thought I should check with the larger community to see > if anyone disagrees with this approach.
I'm fine with this in the short term, although I would eventually like to see the bullet decoupled from alt/optional and removed from the matching guidelines. Then we could put explicit: <alt match="1\.|"><bullet>1.</bullet></alt> and similar in the XML template where we want to support such alternatives. That would make automated matching more reliable, because using a .* match to cover bullets is overly generous. But stricter bullet matching isn't a critical change that needs to be in the next release ;). Cheers, Trevor -- This email may be signed or encrypted with GnuPG (http://www.gnupg.org). For more information, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy
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