Thanks Steve. I agree generally with your statement in this email and
have added a comment to the PR.
To be clear, this is a chance to the Annex on using SPDX license
identifiers in source code, not the Spec proper.
I"m also wondering if this proposal (if accepted in a modified as per
some of your suggestions) would be better suited for Annex H?
https://github.com/spdx/spdx-spec/blob/development/v2.3/chapters/file-tags.md
Jilayne
On 5/21/22 12:26 PM, Steve Winslow wrote:
Hello spdx-legal team (cc spdx-tech team),
Similar to my separate email earlier today, I'd also encourage
interested folks to take a look at the draft annex in PR #464 at
https://github.com/spdx/spdx-spec/pull/464.
This relates to a proposal to add language to the part of the SPDX
spec defining the use of "SPDX-License-Identifier:" in source code.
The proposal here would be to add a new mechanism where individual
snippets (sub-sections of a file) could be specified within source
code, and an associated license expression and copyright statement
associated with each snippet directly in the snippet's source code.
As you'll see in the PR comments, personally I am _not_ in favor of
the PR as currently drafted, because in my view it gives a different
meaning to the existing SPDX-License-Identifier: tag. But I'd like to
see others from the SPDX Legal Team community weigh in as well
with your own thoughts.
Thanks,
Steve
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