On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 10:56:35PM -0500, Richard Fontana wrote:
The SPDX legal team has indicated receptiveness to adopting
"official"
identifiers for the various licenses found in Fedora Linux and
represented in spec files (in present-day Callaway notation), which I
think would potentially increase the number of such identifiers by
some significant amount (I hesitate to say "hundreds" but I could see
that being one possible trajectory, depending for example on how
things like the Callaway umbrella categories would be dealt with [if
at all]). The theory AIUI is that any license in a popular
distribution like Fedora Linux is by definition sufficiently widely
used to justify adoption of an identifier. I am not sure what they
would make of the fedora-logos license but the current SPDX identifier
list has plenty of non-FOSS licenses.
I, for one, am okay with our few non-FOSS licenses using the weird syntax.
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Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader