On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 3:10 PM Robbie Harwood
<rharwood(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Neal Gompa <ngompa13(a)gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 2:25 PM Robbie Harwood <rharwood(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
> >>
> >> Neal Gompa <ngompa13(a)gmail.com> writes:
> >>
> >> > SPDX expression logic is identical to Fedora's, so that will not
> >> > change.
> >>
> >> I don't believe that's correct.
> >>
> >> For instance, for the LGPL, SPDX uses "LGPL-2.0-only" and
> >> "LGPL-2.0-or-later", while Fedora currently uses
"LGPLv2" and "LGPLv2+".
> >>
> >> (From
https://spdx.org/licenses/ and
> >>
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main )
> >>
> >
> > Those are the identifiers, not the *logic*. SPDX and Fedora both use
> > the same boolean logic terms ("and"/"or"/"with")
and support
> > parenthetical expressions. Fedora mandates lowercase, SPDX doesn't
> > care, but examples historically are uppercase. Fedora will retain its
> > expression logic system, complete with lowercase terms (since that
> > makes the expressions more readable).
>
> Fine, but that's misleading in this context. Right now the tool flags
> (and therefore bugs have been filed for) the identifiers as well.
Yes, and those should still happen.
I don't see why that would be the case, given that as Matthew Miller
mentioned upthread the plan is to move to SPDX identifiers in the
distro. That seems like useless churn and waste of maintainer time.
Be well,
--Robbie