Hey folks, As Fedora has been moving toward SPDX identifiers, I'd like to revisit something I brought up several years ago: the enforcement of uppercase operands.
I personally find the uppercase operands difficult to read and they make the whole stanza difficult for me to easily pick out the individual licenses. For example, one of my packages has this: GPL-2.0-or-later and MIT and BSD-1-Clause and BSD-2-Clause and BSD-3-Clause and BSL-1.0 and LGPL-2.1-or-later and CC0-1.0 and (CC0-1.0 or OpenSSL or Apache-2.0) and LicenseRef-Fedora-Public-Domain and (BSD-3-Clause or GPL-2.0-only) For me, I find this tremendously easier because all the identifiers are capitalized, so I can easily read the total combination and then process the boolean logic described. When all the operands are uppercase, it's hard for me to tell at a glance between license tags and operands, and it's much more difficult for me to read. There's an insistence that SPDX mandates uppercase operands, but from what I can tell, tools don't care one way or another. Can we please adjust SPDX guidance so lowercase operands are permitted? Thanks in advance and best regards, Neal -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#1798): https://lists.spdx.org/g/spdx/message/1798 Mute This Topic: https://lists.spdx.org/mt/102715215/21656 Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.spdx.org/g/spdx/leave/2655439/21656/1698928721/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
