Providing machine readable list of licenses

[Miro Hrončok]

Hi,
recently, I needed to check if the license short name used in Fedora 
packages is in good license or not.

I've checked how rpmlint does that and what I saw horrified me.

There is a hardcoded list of good licenses in rpmlint (old and not 
Fedora specific). Then there is a relatively up-to-date list of fedora 
good licenses in /etc/rpmlint/config. The comment says it's copied form 
the wiki at date XYZ.

Is there a possibility to have a machine readable list of good software 
and content licenses somewhere in the package that can be Required by 
rpmlint and possibly others, and more important: have it also on the web 
(well up-to-dated), so if an app want's to query the latest list, it can 
(without parsing the wiki)?

Thanks,
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