Hello all,
I know that it's been discussed from time to time about using SPDX identifiers for our license tags[1][2]. In the Rust SIG, we're beginning the work to figure out the packaging of Rust things. Cargo, the Rust equivalent of Python's pip, enforces the usage of SPDX identifiers for license tags in the Cargo.toml (the file indicating the metadata of a "crate").
If we're considering using SPDX identifiers for license tags (as it appeared to be the case in Tom's FOSDEM talk[3]), would it be possible to grant us the ability to just use that data instead of having to attempt to maintain a mapping of SPDX to Fedora short tags? Since our ecosystem in Fedora is basically zero right now, we could avoid the ugliness right from the get-go.
Thanks and best regards, Neal
[1]: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/legal@lists.fedoraproject.org/... [2]: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/legal@lists.fedoraproject.org/... [3]: https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/fedoras_legal_state/
2017-02-23 15:31 GMT+01:00 Neal Gompa ngompa13@gmail.com:
Hello all,
I know that it's been discussed from time to time about using SPDX identifiers for our license tags[1][2]. In the Rust SIG, we're beginning the work to figure out the packaging of Rust things. Cargo, the Rust equivalent of Python's pip, enforces the usage of SPDX identifiers for license tags in the Cargo.toml (the file indicating the metadata of a "crate").
If we're considering using SPDX identifiers for license tags (as it appeared to be the case in Tom's FOSDEM talk[3]), would it be possible to grant us the ability to just use that data instead of having to attempt to maintain a mapping of SPDX to Fedora short tags? Since our ecosystem in Fedora is basically zero right now, we could avoid the ugliness right from the get-go.
This is just my opinion. 1. I do not see any justification to grant a specific exception *only* to the Rust SIG 2. The mapping is quite straightforward for most cases (Cf. the discussion on fedora-legal), so technically it's not uglier than what other languages packaging utilities do.
For example, this is how pyp2rpm converts pypi classifiers into Fedora short tags, this is quite simple code. https://github.com/fedora-python/pyp2rpm/blob/87f25610ef957a0738f31b217b8017... https://github.com/fedora-python/pyp2rpm/blob/87f25610ef957a0738f31b217b8017... For SPDX, it can't be more complex, I would even say it should be even simpler.
I still think that we should move to SPDX but maintaining consistency within the distro is also important.
Regards, H.
Thanks and best regards, Neal
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On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 6:15 PM, Haïkel hguemar@fedoraproject.org wrote:
2017-02-23 15:31 GMT+01:00 Neal Gompa ngompa13@gmail.com:
Hello all,
I know that it's been discussed from time to time about using SPDX identifiers for our license tags[1][2]. In the Rust SIG, we're beginning the work to figure out the packaging of Rust things. Cargo, the Rust equivalent of Python's pip, enforces the usage of SPDX identifiers for license tags in the Cargo.toml (the file indicating the metadata of a "crate").
If we're considering using SPDX identifiers for license tags (as it appeared to be the case in Tom's FOSDEM talk[3]), would it be possible to grant us the ability to just use that data instead of having to attempt to maintain a mapping of SPDX to Fedora short tags? Since our ecosystem in Fedora is basically zero right now, we could avoid the ugliness right from the get-go.
This is just my opinion.
- I do not see any justification to grant a specific exception *only*
to the Rust SIG
I actually would like us to just allow it voluntarily all over, and that Rust SIG would just happen to be the first to do it. I think that's probably better than just an exception for Rust SIG. :)
- The mapping is quite straightforward for most cases (Cf. the
discussion on fedora-legal), so technically it's not uglier than what other languages packaging utilities do.
I'm aware of the logical mapping, but I don't know of any implementations that attempt to go SPDX->Fedora automatically. I think it'd just be cumbersome, especially as SPDX identifiers grow as the license list is revised over time. I'd much rather skip all that and just start using them directly...
I still think that we should move to SPDX but maintaining consistency within the distro is also important.
I don't disagree, but we need to start somewhere...
-
Haïkel -
Neal Gompa