Once upon a time, Gary Buhrmaster <gary.buhrmaster(a)gmail.com> said:
The follow up suggested that the license
field be differently formatted.
I disagree with such explanatory
prefixes, as it requires yet more apps
to parse/support various prefixes.
No, my suggestion of using "License: SPDX:<foo>" would not require any
additional changes. Anything that cares about the License field will
already need changes to recongize the SPDX values; this would just
remove any ambiguity. And as very little parses the License field, so
there's not some big effort to update required in any case.
I just made this suggestion as a way to avoid anything unclear in the
License field, but it would also allow any future alternate license
strings to be clearly used.
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Chris Adams <linux(a)cmadams.net>