Encouraging use of Whisker from the Apache Creadur project is another avenue:
http://creadur.apache.org/whisker/ On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 5:54 PM, Justin Mclean <jus...@classsoftware.com> wrote: > Hi, > > >> But better conventions on the format and content of the files that would > >> make automated processing easier would also be a great thing, but that > >> might be too late already. > > > > Right, the hardest part of this problem is the spec, which SPDX provides. > > SPDX looks good - how there been any interest to implement this at Apache? > > BTW I see their NOTICE file has a few issues :-) [1] (It mentions Apache, > MIT and BSD software). What we put in NOTICE is policy right rather than a > legal requirement so I guess 3rd parties can do just about anything and > that’s OK? > > A fair number of non ASF Apache software is usually missing a NOTICE file > or has other issues. What do we do when you bundle a non ASF Apache license > software that is missing a NOTICE file? Nothing or be a little more polite > or assume a minimal NOTICE file and add that to ours? > > Thanks, > Justin > > 1. https://github.com/spdx/tools/blob/master/NOTICE > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > -- Sean
