Gary, I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you on the list for being so incredibly helpful and responsive this week. I know it was a busy one for you even before I started pestering you on GitHub. Thanks!
The group might also like to know that the patch for JSON publication grew out of a proposal to bring license identifier validation to the RubyGems package manager. The maintainers were very receptive to using validation warnings to standardize license strings in their repository, but wanted an automatic way to keep the list of valid identifiers up-to-date. The new JSON license IDs list makes that trivial, and I'm sure other open-source package managers, like npm, will also use it. I imagine these could seem like trivial steps, given how much more there is to SPDX than the license list. (npm, for the record, is using license expressions, too.) But I think the size and growth rates of the repositories make identifier validation a particularly high-leverage use of the team's hard work. Best, Kyle On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 11:27:08AM -0700, Gary O'Neall wrote: > Greetings all, > > Thanks to Kyle Mitchell, the SPDX tools now has the capability to publish a > JSON version of the license list (something that has been requested for some > time). > > Kyle's contribution has been merged into the tool and attached is the > output. > > It contains a subset (but a valuable subset) of the license list properties > - licenseId, licenseName, isOsiApproved. > > I would like to publish this on the spdx.org/licenses website if no one > objects. > > Since this built into the tools, every release of the license list will > automatically update the licenses.json file. > > We could do this "silently" if we want to give some time for feedback or we > could make its availability more public if we are comfortable with the > format (I'm in favor of the latter). > > Let me know what you think We can also discuss on Tuesday's call. > > Thanks, > > Gary > > ------------------------------------------------- > Gary O'Neall > Principal Consultant > Source Auditor Inc. > Mobile: 408.805.0586 > Email: <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] > -- Kyle Mitchell, attorney San Francisco, California +1 (415) 864 - 9913 _______________________________________________ Spdx-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.spdx.org/mailman/listinfo/spdx-tech
