Hi Legal, Tech teams,
I just want to clarify my understanding of capitalization
sensitivity for SPDX license ids and license expression operators:
Appendix IV states:
License expression operators (AND, OR and WITH) should be
matched in a case-sensitive manner.
License identifiers (including license exception
identifiers) used in SPDX documents or source code files should
be matched in a case-insensitive manner. In other words, MIT,
Mit and mIt should all be treated as the same identifier and
referring to the same license.
However, please be aware that it is often important to
match with the case of the canonical identifier on the SPDX
License List. This is because the canonical identifier's case is
used in the URL of the license's or exception's entry on the
List, and because the canonical identifier is translated to a
URI in RDF documents.
I'm wondering - was there a particular reason that the license
expression operators are case-sensitive (while the license ids are
not)?
Thanks!
Jilayne
