On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 12:49 PM, Robert Goldman rpgoldman@sift.net wrote:
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?
I was considering just a string for now, as has always been. Then a linter could go over the packages in Quicklisp and check that they are all open source with a proper SPDX license string. For closed source code, I don't know — probably "Proprietary" or something would do — or just anything not valid per SPDX.
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