On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 9:36 PM Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 11:18:23AM -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
> > Fedora-logos.spec contains
> > License: Licensed only for approved usage, see COPYING for details.
> > This is hard to handle in automatad manipulation/validation. Can we get actual
name for this license. Short name listed on License:Main and likely SPDX name as well?
>
> There will be no SPDX identifer. SPDX only covers standard license
> terms. Custom licenses, especially non open source ones, are not under
> SPDX purview.
As I understand it, we will use the SPDX "LicenseRef-" syntax here.
Something like: "LicenseRef-Fedora-Logos"
The SPDX legal team has indicated receptiveness to adopting "official"
identifiers for the various licenses found in Fedora Linux and
represented in spec files (in present-day Callaway notation), which I
think would potentially increase the number of such identifiers by
some significant amount (I hesitate to say "hundreds" but I could see
that being one possible trajectory, depending for example on how
things like the Callaway umbrella categories would be dealt with [if
at all]). The theory AIUI is that any license in a popular
distribution like Fedora Linux is by definition sufficiently widely
used to justify adoption of an identifier. I am not sure what they
would make of the fedora-logos license but the current SPDX identifier
list has plenty of non-FOSS licenses.
Richard