* Richard Fontana:
> On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 9:04 AM Florian Weimer <fweimer(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> The SPDX reference pattern uses “Copyright (c)”, and the second
>> paragraph is in ALL CAPS. Furthermore, the Boehm-GC text says
>> “program” instead of “shellscript”.
>>
>> # Copyright 2018 B. Persson, Bjorn(a)Rombobeorn.se
>> #
>> # This material is provided as is, with absolutely no warranty expressed
>> # or implied. Any use is at your own risk.
>> #
>> # Permission is hereby granted to use or copy this shellscript
>> # for any purpose, provided the above notices are retained on all copies.
>> # Permission to modify the code and to distribute modified code is granted,
>> # provided the above notices are retained, and a notice that the code was
>> # modified is included with the above copyright notice.
>
> The SPDX XML file for Boehm-GC:
>
https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/blob/main/src/Boehm-GC.xml
> does not account for "shellscript" as an alternative to
"program".
>
> In SPDX
(
https://spdx.github.io/spdx-spec/v2-draft/license-matching-guidelines-and...)
> Details of copyright notices are ignored for matching purposes and
> matching is case insensitive. Fedora is basically adopting the SPDX
> understanding of what "matching" means for purposes of using SPDX
> identifiers.
>
> So probably what would need to be done here is getting SPDX to modify
> the XML for Boehm-GC rather than assign a new identifier for this
> variant.
Björn has changed “shellscript” to “program”:
<
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/redhat-rpm-config/c/4580afce7cf577f324...
Is this sufficient to match SPDX Boehm-GC, even without the ALL CAPS and
(c) change?
Sorry, I missed that you alread answered those questions, thanks.
So I think redhat-rpm-config is properly converted now.
Florian