Hi Bob, I’m copying the SPDX tech team on this, as I suspect they will be better suited to answer your question or address any issues here :)
Thanks, Jilayne SPDX Legal Team co-lead [email protected] > On Aug 19, 2015, at 11:41 AM, Gobeille, Robert <[email protected]> wrote: > > We (FOSSology) have discovered some of our license short names that violate > your list of allowed characters. For example, here is the output from your > verification tool when I ran it against your three sample packages from the > backoff this week: > > bobg$ java -jar spdx-tools-2.0.2-jar-with-dependencies.jar Verify > SPDX2_time_1439848453.rdf > WARN [main] (ListedLicenses.java:342) - Unable to access the SPDX listed > licenses at http://www.spdx.org/licenses. Using local file copy of SPDX > listed licenses > This SPDX Document is not valid due to: > Invalid license id 'LicenseRef-Gov't-work'. Must start with 'LicenseRef-' > and made up of the characters from the set 'a'-'z', 'A'-'Z', '0'-'9', '+', > '_', '.', and '-'. > Invalid license id 'LicenseRef-JPEG/netpbm'. Must start with > 'LicenseRef-' and made up of the characters from the set 'a'-'z', 'A'-'Z', > '0'-'9', '+', '_', '.', and '-'. > Invalid license id 'LicenseRef-See-doc(OTHER)'. Must start with > 'LicenseRef-' and made up of the characters from the set 'a'-'z', 'A'-'Z', > '0'-'9', '+', '_', '.', and '-'. > Invalid license id 'LicenseRef-Non-profit!'. Must start with > 'LicenseRef-' and made up of the characters from the set 'a'-'z', 'A'-'Z', > '0'-'9', '+', '_', '.', and '-'. > > But Appendix IV http://spdx.org/sites/spdx/files/SPDX-2.0.pdf says that the > valid characters for idstring are: > > idstring = 1*(ALPHA / DIGIT / “-" / ".” ) > > I realize you consider the ‘+’ to be an expression operator, as in GPL-2.0+ > so that is ok to use in our license names. But what about the underscore? > The verifier says that an underscore is a valid character but I don’t see > that it is allowed in the SPDX 2 spec. What am I missing? > > Thanks, > Bob Gobeille > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Spdx-legal mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.spdx.org/mailman/listinfo/spdx-legal _______________________________________________ Spdx-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.spdx.org/mailman/listinfo/spdx-tech
