On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 9:41 AM David Cantrell <dcantr...@redhat.com> wrote: > > We did portray this as a re-audit and not simply a change in abbreviations. > I did many presentations on just that and we held numerous hack fests where > we helped people analyze packages to determine the correct license expression > in SPDX. > > There are definitely maintainers who thought it was just a change in > abbreviations and I do not think there is an easy way to stop that. But as > we have been going through this process, the number of maintainers auditing > packages has been high and we are seeing more licenses captured and added to > SPDX that were not previously represented.
+1. Whatever else one thinks of the changes over the past year, this 'license re-audit' side effect has been a great ongong success and improvement for Fedora and its downstreams, probably without parallel in Linux distributions (apart from Debian), and also has resulted in a vast improvement to SPDX. Richard _______________________________________________ legal mailing list -- legal@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to legal-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/legal@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
