Hi all,
We have some text at the bottom of this page https://spdx.dev/ids/
regarding the use of SPDX ids related to a recommendation about using
and retaining standard headers when using/adding an SPDX id in source code.
If memory serves, we wrote this at the time when use of SPDX ids in
source code was a very new thing. We didn't know if some license
stewards might have discomfort with the use of SPDX ids *instead* of
their suggested standard license header, and thus felt the need to take
a sort of conservative approach.
Now that SPDX ids are used more widely and we know a bit more about how
scanning tools identify license headers in total - I think we can remove
this section altogether. I don't think SPDX needs to make a statement
either way and projects can make their own call, as we've seen with the
Linux kernal and other projects.
Thoughts?
Jilayne
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