On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 4:28 PM Richard Fontana <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 3:28 PM Neal Gompa <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > 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? > > (not sure if this should be on spdx-legal, this is a question about > the SPDX license expression grammar) >
Well, that's why I sent it to spdx@ and not the other lists. > I assume this would require a change to the SPDX spec, which says: > "License expression operators (AND, OR and WITH) should be matched in > a case-sensitive manner." > https://spdx.github.io/spdx-spec/v2.3/SPDX-license-expressions/ > Yes, I assume so. It doesn't make sense to me that the identifiers are case-insensitive but the operands are case-sensitive. Admittedly, a generous reading implies that the important aspect is that the statement uses consistent case, but I know people have generally interpreted it differently. -- 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 (#1800): https://lists.spdx.org/g/spdx/message/1800 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]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
