OK I split the thread and focus on the third bullet.
As for Guillaume's idea of having a letter reserved for short
identifiers for other license lists to use (M would not work – MPL!!
We might have to use a symbol or X? Would have to check current short
identifiers for a letter not being used… :) - this is an interesting
idea that seems rather easy to implement, but could also cause other
problems. I was not aware of the use case cited and we'll have to
check with the tech team on that. ??
A short copy paste from the thread regarding this point (see original
thread for full comments)
- My first suggestion was to reserve "M-*" not "M*" :-).
- The second one was to duplicate acronym allowing SPDX-GPL-2.0 and GPL-2.0.
- Roger said "A prefix to identify local/private maintained licenses
would be great"
- Philippe said "With that said, Guillaume point to private naming of
licenses is a valid one.
That could be best supported by supporting appropriate private namespacing
(which is something RDF does very well) and could be something to design
for future specs versions"
- Daniel said "I think that the best way to implement this in the future
is to be
able to specify domains in the identifiers. Something like
ninka.bsd3, fossology.afossolyname, spdx.bsd3 and default the
domains to spdx."
- I have opened the question about creation of a new use case or update
of this one http://spdx.org/wiki/license-list-extension
Some of the use case I have in mind, in wich license collision can occur
- A user wants to add a new license to the license list used to define
license policies (of course SPDX license list can not be overridden).
- A user manages licenses information from different scanning tools
(like fossology , see
http://www.fossology.org/projects/fossology/wiki/MatchSPDXLicenceIDs).
- A user upgrades a tool supporting a new version of SPDX license.
- A user imports a preexisting knowledge base including license information.
Regarding namespacing, I like Daniel suggestion. It could give something
like
[Domain.][License Name][-Version][–Exception]
License Name is of course mandatory, and domain name does not have to be
displayed if there is no conflict between identifiers.
I'm not sure we should say something about default domain, but why not.
Guillaume
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