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Bug 324219 - [metadata] Use of SPDX Specification for License and Package Information
Summary: [metadata] Use of SPDX Specification for License and Package Information
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Equinox
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: p2 (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 normal (vote)
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Reported: 2010-09-01 11:52 EDT by Mike Milinkovich CLA
Modified: 2020-02-19 04:20 EST (History)
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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.