[Fedora-legal-list] Re: rpmlint and SPDX licenses: W: invalid-license BSD-3-Clause

[Neal Gompa]

On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 5:50 AM Miro Hrončok  wrote:
> Hello license folks.
>
> I see that Fedora's rpmlint is yet to be taught to understand SPDX:
>
> python3-lxml.x86_64: W: invalid-license BSD-3-Clause
> python3-lxml.x86_64: W: invalid-license MIT-CMU
>
> Is this support tracked somewhere? I know openSUSE already uses SPDX, so
> rpmlint probably knows how to read that. Right?

rpmlint only knows what licenses we tell it, and the Fedora rpmlint
policy has not been updated yet because we want the
fedora-license-data package to produce the necessary TOML file that
rpmlint will source rather than me maintaining another copy of this.

rpmlint will handle both Fedora style and SPDX license tags once we
have that data file in place.