Few ponderings: * Is there any leeway for confusion as to what deprecated means with a license? I take it to mean 'we, license authors, don't believe it should be used for new works'. * Is there a more general notion of guidance here? <guidance>deprecated</guidance> or <guidance>draft</guidance> etc - not sure if there are other possibilities. * Sometimes a best practice when deprecating is to point to what folk should use. deprecated: Apache 1.1, use-instead: Apache 2.0; might be worth supporting if the data supports it. The first set of deprecated licenses I can think of all have successors, but I imagine there will be ones which don't have a specific successor.
Hen On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 12:14 PM, Gary O'Neall <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings all - > > I would like to add a mechanism for representing listed licenses that have > been marked as deprecated in the JSON and RDFa formats for licenses on the > spdx.org/licenses website. > > > > My proposal is to add a property "spdx:deprecated" in the RDFa and just > "deprecated" in the JSON with a boolean value of true or false. It would > be treated as optional with a default value of false. > > > > This should be backwards compatible since it is an addition of an optional > field. > > > > Two questions - any objections to this proposal? > > - where should we document this? We could add it in the Other License > Information section (currently number 5), although, I think it would only > logically apply to the listed license. We do not have a separate section > for Other Licensing information". > > > > Let me know what you think and if you would like to add it to one of the > future tech calls to discuss. > > > Thanks, > > Gary > > > > ------------------------------------------------- > > Gary O'Neall > > Principal Consultant > > Source Auditor Inc. > > Mobile: 408.805.0586 > > Email: [email protected] > > > > _______________________________________________ > Spdx-tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.spdx.org/mailman/listinfo/spdx-tech > >
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