On Monday, July 25, 2016 1:31:58 PM CDT Tom Callaway wrote:
On 07/24/2016 12:13 AM, Haïkel wrote:
> I don't know all the details, but Spot is listed among the
> contributors, we're maybe already involved even indirectly to that
> effort.
>
> But yes, we need a representative from Fedora Legal but that's likely
> part of the decision.
I've been working on and off with SPDX to ensure that there is as
minimal as possible deviation between our two lists.
If we did want to move forward with this, we'd need to figure out how to
resolve the inconsistencies with BSD/MIT between Fedora and SPDX.
Additionally, since pretty much every single package would need to be
touched for this change (as well as every package awaiting review), this
would not be a small effort, and I am _not_ volunteering to undertake it
alone, as I do not have the time.
I tend be of the opinion that the work involved vastly outweighs the
benefit, but if others disagree (and are willing to volunteer their time
to work on this), I could be convinced.
~tom
A way to deal with it could be to enance rpmdev-bumpspec that we use in mass
rebuilds. or one of the other mass rebuild script, or for that matter if we
had a script that could do the conversion we could integare it into the mass
rebuild process. I am willing to make the changes needed to make it happen as
part of the next mass rebuild. It would require someone to script the
conversion from what we have to SPDX. it would still take time to propagate
everywhere. We would probably want to extend rpmlint and the review scripts
to throw a warning on it.
Dennis