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Bug 324219

Summary: [metadata] Use of SPDX Specification for License and Package Information
Product: [Eclipse Project] Equinox Reporter: Mike Milinkovich <mike.milinkovich>
Component: p2Assignee: P2 Inbox <equinox.p2-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: caniszczyk, christian.k.2510, Ed.Merks, janet.campbell, oliver.kopp, pascal, wayne.beaton
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
See Also: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=533829
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Description Mike Milinkovich CLA 2010-09-01 11:52:30 EDT 
The SPDX group[1] of the Linux Foundation has published a draft spec[2] that outlines a proposal for a standard for open source package metadata, including license information. They are also building a significant repository of known open source licenses, with unique identifiers.

The Eclipse community needs to decide whether we should leverage this standard, and/or leverage their license repository. There have been similar requests in the past for the Foundation to create and maintain a repository of licenses used by Eclipse projects to avoid duplication and errors in the p2 metadata. 

You can read their whitepaper as well[3].

[1] http://spdx.org/ 
[2] http://spdx.org/spec 
[3] http://spdx.org/system/files/lf_foss_compliance_spdx.pdf
Comment 1 Ed Merks CLA 2020-02-19 04:20:30 EST 
This issue seems to have died.