Well, I'm glad that you're reconsidering it.
With my FESCo hat, I consider this a question that belongs to Legal
Team and technical committees aka FESCo and FPC. Council could
coordinate it as it involves multiple bodies.
My personal opinion about standardizing licensing nomemclature accross
FOSS actors (e.g SUSE [1]) is something we should encourage.
Especially regarding efforts with cross-platform desktop apps packages
(flatpak), and standardizing app metadata (FreeDesktop AppData
specification uses SPDX [2]), both being projects where Fedora Desktop
Team is involved.
Benefits may be low, but cost of doing it is quite low itself.
If we were to decide switching to SPDX, actions plan would be:
1. update licensing guidelines (FPC + Fedora Legal)
2. schedule the change + announcement (FESCo)
3. execute the change (packagers + provenpackagers),
As we have already standardized our licensing nomenclature, it would
easily automatable (update git but not necessarily with rebuild).
Ideally, it should happen in rawhide before a mass rebuild.
It would also help to detect in the next cycle packages, that did not
get a rebuild and are potentially unmaintained. Yes, it would be a
side effect but a positive one, I guess.
Regards,
H.
[1]
https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_guidelines
[2]
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Quickstart.html