On Thursday, May 26, 2022 9:25:40 AM CDT Neal Gompa wrote:
At least in the MIT license case, the MIT identifier exists there. One reason Tom Callaway resisted changing to SPDX in the past was that they never resolved the problem with the MIT identifier. It's effectively a family identifier, just like in Fedora. The difference is that some MIT license variants got separate identifiers, but not all.
My understanding is that `SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT` specifically refers to the MIT/Expat license, whose text is available on the SPDX `MIT` license page[1]. SPDX already has a couple distinct MIT license variant identifiers that we don't have.
[1]: https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT.html