Hi Gary, Jilayne, rest of the SPDX technical and legal teams.
I have been thinking about the optional sections of licenses. I think
it is not worth it to create a template rule to match optional sections
of known text
Template rules were supposed to be intended for sections that are
expected to vary, not simply sections that can be omitted. I just feel
it over-complicates things.
What do you think about specifying variable sections with some sort of
begin and end marker, and indicate that they optional sections of a
template cannot be embedded into another one (to avoid recursion).
For example, something like this (the name will uniquely identify the
section).
{{beginOptional;name=anyUniqueName}}
Text that is optional, including some template rules (for variable
sections in the optional text)
{{endOptional}
For example, the BSD-2 is currently specified as follows:
{{original=Copyright (c) <year> <owner>\nAll rights reserved.;match=Copyright
\(c\) .+All rights reserved.;name=copyrigh;type=optional;example=Copyright (C)
2013 John Doe\nAll rights reserved.}}
but I think it makes more sense to specify it like this:
{{beginOptional;name=copyrightStatement}}
Copyright (c) {{original=<year>
<owner>.;match=.+;name=copyright;type=optional;example=2013 John Doe}}
All rights reserved.
{{endOptional}
what do you think?
--dmg
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