On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 5:35 PM, Mark Shuttleworth <m...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > > We should allow a plaintext field there for this situation. Yes, go > ahead with "Other open source". >
It would probably make sense to support SPDX license tags and expressions[1]. This is used in AppStream, so a great amount of software is already classified in this manner. Furthermore, openSUSE uses SPDX tags for their license metadata for packages, and Debian uses a subset of it as part of the copyright file structure in Debian Source Control packaging. While we in Fedora use our own license tag list[2] that predates SPDX (used by a great deal of Linux distributions), we maintain a mapping to SPDX for AppStream support. Having verifiable license information (either Fedora style or SPDX style) is also useful for ensuring things are "compatible" or "desired" on a system, depending on whatever preference you may have. [1]: https://spdx.org/licenses/ [2]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main#Software_License_List -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! -- Snapcraft mailing list Snapcraft@lists.snapcraft.io Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/snapcraft
