Re: License field

On 10/16/15 Oct 16 -2:03 PM, Faré wrote:

I propose we document that the license field should if possible contain an identifier from http://spdx.org/licenses/ http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6867

Do you expect this field to be a string, or should it be encoded in some special way (e.g., a keyword representation of the identifier)? If we do the latter, we could check it but (a) this would bloat ASDF further and (b) it would incur a maintenance debt in perpetuity as the set of SPDX identifiers changes. One more question: What if the software is NOT open source? Cheers, r