[Fedora-legal-list] Re: License list synchronization for rpminspect

[Tom Callaway]

I am definitely open to ideas on how to make the license data/metadata more
portable/maintainable.

Tom

On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 1:38 PM David Cantrell <dcantrell(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:

>  Hi,
>
>  rpminspect performs a License tag validation on packages.  The license data
>  comes from a JSON data file that I think was produced at some point from
>  the
>  Fedora charts on the wiki but then never really updated.  Consequently, it
>  raises failures that are incorrect per current licensing data.
>
>  The data for rpminspect comes from:
>       https://github.com/rpminspect/rpminspect-data-fedora
>
>  The license data is in licenses/fedora.json
>
>  The format should be somewhat easy to understand.  I didn't create it.  I
>  found this database and ran with it.  I'd like to come up with a way to
>  keep
>  it in sync with the data on the wiki.  Right now I advise package
>  maintainers
>  to send me pull requests to update the data, but that's not going to be a
>  long
>  term solution.
>
>  Anyone have any thoughts on this?  Ideas of how to keep the information up
>  to
>  date in all locations?
>
>  Thanks,
>
>  --
>  David Cantrell <dcantrell(a)redhat.com&gt;
>  Red Hat, Inc. | Boston, MA | EST5EDT
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