SPDX and LICENSE in the ports framework

Antoine Brodin antoine at freebsd.org
Wed Nov 8 10:53:17 UTC 2017


On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 11:49 AM, Kurt Jaeger <lists at opsec.eu> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Who is working on the LICENSE part of the ports framework ?
>
> I've found this website:
>
> https://spdx.org/
>
> which describes SPDX as a
>
> standard format for communicating the components, licenses and
> copyrights associated with software packages
>
> Do we need some mapping between our license and theirs ?
> Some tools etc ?

Hi,

Mk/bsd.licenses.db.mk:18:# The canonical source of license names and
short-name identifiers:
Mk/bsd.licenses.db.mk:19:# - SPDX License List
Mk/bsd.licenses.db.mk:20:#   https://spdx.org/licenses/

Cheers,

Antoine


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