Richard Fontana wrote:
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".
I just tried to be as specific and unambiguous as possible. It didn't
seem like the wording was that rigid when there was a large collection
of wording variants all called "MIT".
A shellscript is a program, so as the author I can change it to say
"program" if that helps:
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/redhat-rpm-config/pull-request/262
matching is case insensitive.
That's good because I strongly dislike entire paragraphs of shouting
uppercase letters.
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.
In general I think it would help if SPDX were more flexible about the
word choice in such cases, so a license could be applied to a program,
a library, a document, a single file or a collection of software.
For this particular case it's not needed if my merge request is
accepted.
Björn Persson