Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (186 mails)

[Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 2:29 AM, jdd <jdd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Le 29/12/2011 01:06, Greg Freemyer a écrit :
<snip>
> > One possibly trivial recent example of openSUSE already having a
> > steering committee is the move from the old license tokens to the new
> > ones from SPDX.
>
>
> what move? what spdx do is not openSUSE. I was the origin of the openSUSE
> page and carefully noted on the top of this one the controversial status
> (it's still there). This is not something we can solve by a decision.

I repeat this is a trivial situation and I agree with the actions taken, but:

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As I understand it:

- prior to you(jdd) creating that page, openSUSE allowed license
tokens in specfiles haphazardly.  In particular I don't think rpmlint
used to check license tokens against a list (but I could be wrong.)

- When you created the page it was used as a guideline of what was
acceptable, but the list was still not enforced technically I don't
think.  ie. A human may have complained if it wasn't in the list, but
there was not a automated check that the license field in the specfile
contained a valid token.

As of roughly a month ago, the SPDX licenses were adopted by Coolo as
the basis of a opensuse acceptable tokens to use in the license field
of specfiles.

Now rpm lint looks for license tokins to be valid.  Here's and example
where I forced the token to the old value in a small package I
maintain:

RPMLINT report:
===============
mac-robber.x86_64: W: invalid-license GPLv2+
mac-robber.src: W: invalid-license GPLv2+
The specified license string is not recognized. Please refer to
http://license.opensuse.org/ for the list of known licences and their exact
spelling.

And if you go to the link, and enter GPLv2+ in the text entry field,
it comes back with GPL-2+ which is from the SPDX list.

So the entire openSUSE project was impacted by that change.  And as is
now obvious, it was done without updating the wiki entry discussing
acceptable openSUSE licenses.

Greg
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