On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 01:59:48PM +0200, Jerome Leclanche wrote:
Hi
This just came up on IRC. Thoughts on using the SPDX license list as valid license identifiers for all packages? https://spdx.org/licenses/
I like this idea. I started looking into how this would be packaged. The main repository is simply just structured data SPDX, which are processed into different formats. One of them are just plain text files with the license text [1]. Dropping these files into `/usr/share/licenses/common` seems like the easiest solution. But our current structure is `/usr/share/licenses/$LicenseName/license.txt`, with a few exceptions such as CCPL. Is there any reason for this structure? If we want the current structure, it feels like the easiest solution is to take the list and massage it into folders. This can probably be done with SPDX tooling, and I'll gladly take a look at how that can be done. [1]: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-data/tree/master/text -- Morten Linderud PGP: 9C02FF419FECBE16