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List:       debian-devel
Subject:    Re: debian/copyright format and SPDX
From:       Hideki Yamane <henrich () iijmio-mail ! jp>
Date:       2023-09-09 5:20:50
Message-ID: 20230909103850.45d3f9e484e5c99d86d6a07b () iijmio-mail ! jp
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Hi,

On Fri, 08 Sep 2023 07:34:43 -0700
Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:
> The really interesting part of SPDX is the license list and the canonical
> name assignment, which is *way* more active and *way* more mature at this
> point than the equivalent in Debian.  They have a much larger license
> list, which is currently being bolstered by Fedora, and the new licenses
> and rules for deduplicating them are reviewed by lawyers as part of their
> maintenance process.  Their identifiers are also incerasingly used in
> upstream software in SPDX-License-Identifier pseudo-headers.

 Yes, so we don't need to spare our limited resources to maintain
 license list if we adopt it, IMHO.


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Hideki Yamane <henrich@iijmio-mail.jp>

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