On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 12:33 PM Ben Beasley <code@musicinmybrain.net> wrote:
There are two relevant questions for mass conversion:

- Is there an unambiguous mapping from Callaway ID to SPDX ID?

- Are there other licenses that *should* be in the expression since we no longer use the “effective license” concept?

The license-fedora2spdx tool can answer the first but not the second. There are a *lot* of packages for which the answer to both questions is “yes.” Is the plan to do mass conversion and hope that people follow up on auditing later?

I think that is the view.  I do not fully share the view that this is a good approach, but I recognize that my views are in the minority. :)

Regarding the first point, there actually are no true unambiguous mappings from Callaway to SPDX. As I see it, in some (maybe even many) cases, what a Callaway name applies to (under a "correct" application of the associated legacy Fedora guidelines) may coincide reasonably closely to what we are saying an SPDX expression applies to. 

The point may be more significant. Under the Callaway system there was a confusing set of guidelines that seemed to both embrace and reject the notion of an "effective license". We have u
 rejected the concept of the effective license (except possibly in some extreme scenarios)



 

> On Feb 17, 2023, at 11:39 AM, Miro Hrončok <mhroncok@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 11. 02. 23 14:52, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
>> * 8795 tags can be trivially converted using `license-fedora2spdx`
>
> Whenever I update a package to a new version etc. I look at the license tag and update it to SPDX when possible. It takes about 30 seconds. I wonder if we could mass change the 8795 tags sooner than later to save the 73 hours of manual work?
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