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.
Richard