On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 7:22 PM, Jeremiah Foster <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Philippe Ombredanne <[email protected]> > wrote: >> As for SPDX to DEP5 conversion, there are probably several >> difficulties ahead, one of them being the files: full paths in SPDX >> vs. patterns in DEP5. > > > Hmm. I guess I'll have to look at the spec. What I can see from a cursory > bit of research is the DEP 5 format specified here: > https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0//#file-syntax > Is there a similar document for SPDX? I've looked on the wikipedia site, the > Linux Foundation site, etc. and I cannot seem to find something similar.
This would the PDF at: http://spdx.org/sites/spdx/files/spdx-1%202.pdf "6 File Information One instance of the File Information is required for each file in the software package. It provides important meta information about a given file including licenses and copyright. Each instance should include the following fields. 6.1 File Name 6.1.1 Purpose: Identify the full path and filename that corresponds to the file information in this section." The key point in SPDX being "full path", whereas DEP5 http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/#files-field talks about more compact patterns. I shall say that the Debian approach makes a lot of sense to me. -- Philippe Ombredanne _______________________________________________ Spdx-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.spdx.org/mailman/listinfo/spdx-tech
