Dear Jack, In message <[email protected]> you wrote: > > That approach was written up in a wiki article here: > http://wiki.spdx.org/view/Technical_Team/SPDX_Meta_Tags . > Unfortunately a bit difficult to find.
Thanks for the link. > We are starting discussions again on this to see if we can move this > from the wiki to a SPDX Technical Report and have it reviewed by the > community. That's my action to write it up. I see. Here is a bit of additional information; I'm not sure if this has been brought up before: when suggesting to add SPDX IDs to the Linux kernel files, one argument was raised which in my opinion needs clarification: The argument was that the replacement of a license header in a source file by some abbreviation (an ID tag) is not just a formal change of the textual representation of the license information, but a might be considered a change to the actual license terms. I sent an e-mail for help to the Software Freedom Law Center, trying to get their official position if the replacement of the GPL header by a "SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+" tag is acceptable, but they did not reply yet. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, Managing Director: Wolfgang Denk HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: [email protected] Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sence of humor to console him for what he is. - Fancis Bacon _______________________________________________ Spdx-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.spdx.org/mailman/listinfo/spdx-tech
