On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 2:10 PM Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Feb 2022 at 11:59:11 +0100, Stephan Lachnit wrote: > > No, you don't have to master SPDX! That's the point: you don't > > interact with it at all. It's created by tools, and shipped to satisfy > > the legal obligation to provide copyright information. > > So, are you saying this is something you are doing to satisfy the "letter > of the law" for licenses that require copyright notices to be reproduced > alongside binaries, to avoid having that noise reduce the clarity of the > information we are providing for other, arguably more useful reasons?
I think I don't fully get the question, but yes, essentially this would be a write-only format that I expect no human to read. Users don't care about it and it's more than enough from the legal side. Regards, Stephan
