Migration to SPDX
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Ashok Madugula
Hi : We are planning to migrate to SPDX Licenses. If we are using general MIT License . Can we replace the existing license file with SPDX Identifier ? Do we need to generate new SPDX Document and publish them regularly ?
Regards Ashok Madugula |
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Gary O'Neall
Hi Ashok,
You can keep the existing license file in the distribution but we recommend adding SPDX identifiers to the source files – see https://spdx.org/ids for more information.
For the SPDX documents, I would recommend making that part of the standard release process. When new releases are published, you can publish a new SPDX document for that release. This will probably require a bit of tooling, some of which is available in open source at github.com/spdx.
Let us know if you have any other questions or would like more details.
Regards, Gary
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Max Mehl
~ Gary O'Neall [2020-01-27 19:38 +0100]:
For the SPDX documents, I would recommend making that part of the standardAs a side note, if you adopt the REUSE guidelines - so marking each file with copyright and licensing information using SPDX tags - creating an SPDX document will be just a matter of one command with the helper tool: `reuse spdx` For more information: https://reuse.software Best, Max -- Max Mehl - Programme Manager - Free Software Foundation Europe Contact and information: https://fsfe.org/about/mehl | @mxmehl Become a supporter of software freedom: https://fsfe.org/join |
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