Greetings tech team,
There is a request by the FSF and approved by the legal team to add a property to the listed licenses isFsfFree to indicate if a license is identified by the Free Software Foundation as a Free / Libre license. This would be a simple Boolean type. I was going to add a pull request to the spec when I realized we don't really document other listed license properties which are used, so I added an issue to document the new property as well as the older fields already in use (e.g. isOsiApproved): https://github.com/spdx/spdx-spec/issues/46 Please let me know by Tuesday if you have any concerns about the new property name. You can either comment on the issue or reply to this thread. The field will be accessible in the JSON, RDFa, RDF/Turtle, RDF/XML, and RDFa formats of the license in addition to being exposed through the SPDX Tool Java libraries. There was also a discussion on the legal team distribution about use of parentheses in license expressions. The consensus on the thread was that the spec is not clear on the use of linefeeds, so I added two new issues to track the documentation updates. Trevor has volunteered to create a pull request for this as well as other improvements in the license expression documentation - please see the following issues for more detail: https://github.com/spdx/spdx-spec/issues/45 https://github.com/spdx/spdx-spec/issues/44 https://github.com/spdx/spdx-spec/pull/37 Gary ------------------------------------------------- Gary O'Neall Principal Consultant Source Auditor Inc. Mobile: 408.805.0586 Email: <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]
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