Gary,

Sameer and I discussed it. We believe  the LicenseInfoInFiles field would best 
be represented as a list of license expression expressions and therefore we 
agree with your recommendation.

Best,
- Mark


From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gary O'Neall
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2015 11:20 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Conflict in OrLater licenses and LicenseInfosInFIles

I just ran across an issue while preparing files for the Collab Summit.

The "OrLater" is a complex license type according to the model.

The LicenseInfoInFiles is of type SimpleLicensingInfo which does not include 
the OrLater type.

The SPDX Tools parser is now flagging errors for the use of GPL 2.0+ which used 
to be an SPDX listed license, but is now an OrLater license.

My proposed solution is to change the range of LicenseInfoInFiles to be 
AnyLicenseInfo.  This would also allow conjunctive and disjunctive licenses, 
which we did discuss a couple years ago and rejected - but I'm thinking it may 
be OK to allow since the legal group is now talking about having a license 
expression for some of the SPDX listed licenses.

Let me know what you think.

Gary


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Gary O'Neall
Principal Consultant
Source Auditor Inc.
Mobile: 408.805.0586
Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>

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