Re: [GNUnet-developers] spdx proposal

[Tirifto]

ng0 píše v So 12. 01. 2019 v 18:43 +0100:
> Hi *, and happy new year!

Hello and to you as well!

> Hi *, and happy new year!
> 
> A while back I've talked to someone about SPDX (
> https://spdx.org/about) and the purpose of it.
> Since it doesn't add any damage, and it helps humans as well as
> programs who need to parse files for copyleft/rights, I want to
> discuss how my patch should look like to add this to gnunet core.
> I will adjust the rest of our repositories after core is done. It
> would be good to adjust Taler repositories as well.
> 
> You have a good amount of freedom in how to apply spdx.
> 
> Practical example, pleroma (AGPL3-only software), has this header:
> 
> # Pleroma: A lightweight social networking server
> # Copyright © 2017-2019 Pleroma Authors <https://pleroma.social/>
> # SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only
> 
> and includes the normal "LICENSE" file in their root.
> 
> Next example. Linux (https://lwn.net/Articles/739183/) is using a
> mechanism which supports the software making use of spdx. If you read
> into their current source tree you see that they have a folder
> 'LICENSES' which contains license specifications according to their
> rules: 
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.18/process/license-rules.html
> 
> There are applications to help with the process, but I haven't looked
> into them yet.
> 
> We have a number of options here:
> 1. Do as pleroma does. cut down the license part of the header to the
> necessary parts.
> 2. Add SPDX as an addition to our current header, no removal.
> 3. Look more closely into what Linux has done.
> 4. Ignore spdx.
> 
> I'm in favor of 2 and would also go for 1 if people found it
> reasonable.

I would like to bring the REUSE Initiative to your attention, which was
launched a while back, by Free Software Foundation Europe, to provide a
set of practices for including machine-readable licensing information
in source code. It's a superset of SPDX, if my understanding's correct.

https://reuse.software/

Not sure how you'll find it, but I thought it was relevant to mention.

Best wishes
// Tirifto

signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part