In <https://fossbazaar.org/pipermail/spdx/2010-September/000116.html> dmg brought up and interesting question regarding how similar two license texts need to be before they can be

We assume any that file that does not contain explicit license info and does not match any of the open source in our database is licensed under the declared license of the project. In this case the

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As per the discussion during Friday's License call, I typed up a guideline/description of what should/should not be included in the License Notes field on the License List: License Notes field

A name change would be an improvement. I see your point about not complicating navigation for existing participants. However, having a top level page that basically free of content, as the

Peter, I'm responsible for the hierarchy, so I'll weigh in. I'd rather change the name to "Getting Started" or something like that (if it's the "Guidelines" that bothers you) rather than moving it. I

Does anyone object to moving the content of <http://www.spdx.org/wiki/spdx/participation-guidelines> to the main participation page, <http://www.spdx.org/node/2240>? A page named "guidelines" seems

This is good. It can start some discussion on the standard. First, one question: I scanned the file for zlib and I found some issues with it, but I think are worth discussing: 1. Some files do not

Actually I was replying to Peter's question. I guess that your mail client might not have shown that it was a reply. But, to actually make it a question: is there an archive available of the period

Sweet, thanks. I added a link to the participation guidelines page in the wiki. Hopefully one more link will make google pick it up. Peter

Armijn, Now that you have appeared in the NY Times with a Boston Red Sox hat http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/26/business/26ping.html?src=busln, I feel I must respond quickly. There are a number of

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Is the spdx mailing list archived anywhere? I was looking to read up on the past debate around a particular part of the spec and I was unable to locate an archive of the mailing list. It is crucial

I moved it to Home » Wiki » Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) » Spec Development » Sandbox For Sharing Examples, Ideas, Etc. Not sure if it way my knowledge or permissions or both, but

Hi all, I have posted some examples, along with some notes about them at <http://spdx.org/wiki/openlogic-spdx-10-beta-examples>. The examples are intended to conform to the 1.0 beta version of the

Colleagues, Sorry for sending out the call-in details late. The call will be at the usual Tuesday time the RDF subgroup has been meeting the last 3 weeks. We'll be discussing mechanism for

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Kate is doing her best to fix it up asap.

All: this is most likely a known problem, but the draft web page for the spec at http://www.spdx.org/wiki/spdx/specification seems to be quite hard to read (many empty lines), the paragraph numbers

Good point on the copyright holder/copyright information. We could have all of the copyrights combined in one field - e.g. if a file or package has 3 copyrights A, B, and C - we could have a single