Re: RFC: Adopting SPDX for SBOM generation

On Thu, Aug 7, 2025, 5:42 PM Rob Norris <robn@despairlabs.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 7 Aug 2025, at 2:28 AM, Warner Losh wrote:
>
>  Yes, there are exceptions, and we can handle
> those on a case by case basis (eg ZFS could update the license
> metadata by hand to be the right CDDL variant, etc).
>
>
> Incidentally, this year we (OpenZFS) started some work on getting license
> tags onto everything and enforcing them in CI, see
> https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/17001
>
> There's still a fair bit of work to do to get our house in order and I
> bang on it every couple of months as time permits, but at least it's not
> getting worse.
>
> I'll be happy to align OpenZFS with anything more comprehensive that
> FreeBSD want to do, so I'll be watching this project with interest.
>

What tool did you use to change those 3200-odd files? We have 150k files
last I checked...

I'll look at the spdx checker as well...

Warner


> Cheers,
> Rob.
>