On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Philippe Ombredanne <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 4:23 AM, ahi <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > First allow me to introduce myself, My name is Ahmed Hisham I am
> > currently a  CS student at the German University in Cairo. I hope to
> > spend the summer working on the SPDX parser libraries project list on
> > the idea page at
> >
> http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/gsoc/gsoc-2014-spdx-projects
> .
>
> Hello Ahmed!
> Thank you for your interest in SPDX.
> What else can you tell us about you?
>
> > I have a couple of questions about the project, regarding what version
> > of the spec is it expected to support.
> > Should it support older version than the current spec ?
>
> I do not think that would very be valuable to support 1.0 and 1.1.
> Best would be to support the newest (1.2) and next version (2.0) IMHO.
>

Are there examples, i.e. complete files, with headers, etc. that are
available for the 1.2 and 2.0 formats? I can find some snippets available
but nothing that shows me what a complete SPDX file would look like.

>
> > Should it partially support the upcoming spec 2.0 ? If so is there a
> > publicly available working draft?
> > I say partially as the spec is expected to be release in august and by
> > then the summer of code will be at its end.
>
> Yes that would work best.
>
> Now which language would you have in mind?
> Hint: Java is already covered.
> My choices would be Python, Go, JavaScript and Ruby in this order.
>

I'm writing one in perl because perl is widely used in Debian. I want to
write a DEP5 to SPDX converter. This way I can generate a complete software
BoM from an Debian or Debian-derived machine and put it into a tool like
FOSSology. I'd also like to be able to do the reverse; use SPDX data to
enable the generation of DEP5 files, though the use case here is a bit
contrived.

Cheers,

Jeremiah


>
> Cordially
>
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