On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 7:47 PM Vladimir Sitnikov <[email protected]> wrote:
> I see there's https://github.com/spdx/license-list-data , however TXT > licenses look weird there. Yes, that has bothered me too, see https://github.com/spdx/license-list-data/issues/44. > Here's how Apache 2.0 looks like in SPDX: > https://github.com/spdx/license-list-data/blob/master/text/Apache-2.0.txt > Here's an official one: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt Exactly. For many license text the plain text version is the gold standard, and SPDX should archive that format as-is, instead of re-generating the plain text representation from the XML one, loosing all plain text formatting. > Of course whitespace in not very important for legal purposes, however I > wonder if SPDX can be used as a collection of "known license texts". > In other words, I think behind the lines of "getDefaultLicenseText" API that > would return license text given a SPDX id. It's not legally important, but generated NOTICE files (e.g. by ORT [1]) look so much better if they use the original plain text license texts. [1] https://github.com/heremaps/oss-review-toolkit -- Sebastian Schuberth -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#3717): https://lists.spdx.org/g/Spdx-tech/message/3717 Mute This Topic: https://lists.spdx.org/mt/32161006/21656 Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.spdx.org/g/Spdx-tech/unsub [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
