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Re: Commutativity of SPDX expressions

McCoy Smith
 

At the risk of sounding like I’m hijacking this to re-raise my prior issue:
If AND is the operator to be used when having different inbound vs outbound, then AND may not be commutative, since the order of listing the licenses may convey information about which license is inbound vs outbound, and (maybe) which license applies to different parts of the code.
Which militates to me toward a new expression, but I’ve made that point already.

On Jul 17, 2022, at 11:22 AM, Richard Fontana <rfontana@...> wrote:

I'm working on some draft documentation for Fedora around use of SPDX
expressions in RPM spec file License: fields. I was surprised to
apparently not see anything in the SPDX spec that says that the AND
and OR operators are commutative. I want to assert that the expression
"MIT AND Apache-2.0" is equivalent to "Apache-2.0 AND MIT". Does the
SPDX spec actually take no position on this?

Richard
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