Re: LICENSE (was Re: [ITP] asr-manpages, funny-manpages)

[Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca>]

On 2022-06-04 07:02, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 14/05/2022 14:15, Jon Turney wrote:
>> On 08/05/2022 18:49, Brian Inglis wrote:
>>> On 2022-05-08 09:15, Libor Ukropec wrote:
>>>> Dne 07.05.2022 v 20:52 Brian Inglis napsal(a):
>>>> BTW, I noted LICENSE, CYGWIN_MAINTAINER, UPSTREAM_MAINTAINER 
>>>> variables ... are they used/shown somewhere and is it a best 
>>>> practise to have them in the cygport script?
>>>
>>> Something I think should be documented somewhere, are tracked in some 
>>> other distros package trackers, easier to add on adoption, and useful 
>>> when you want to submit bug reports upstream.
>>> Defining then as shell vars mean you can use them for searching or in 
>>> commands.
>>
>> 'LICENSE' probably should be required by cygport, containing a SPDX ID 
>> or license expression.
>>
>> I'm not sure about 'CYGWIN_MAINTAINER', since we already track that 
>> information elsewhere.

> I am tinkering with adding support for LICENSE in cygport-> license: in 
> src.hint, exposing that in the package summary data, backfilling from 
> existing cyports and validating those as SPDX license expressions.
> 
> I see that you've used:
> 
> LICENSE=MIT-like
> LICENSE_SPDX="SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT-like"
> 
> I don't see 'MIT-like' on https://spdx.org/licenses/, so I wonder if you 
> could explain where that comes from?

Articles on early SPDX usage had suggestions for as yet uncatalogued 
licences like adding -like. From the looks of my package sources, some 
licensing info came from Fedora specs and conversions to cygport. My 
cygports have now been updated locally to what I believe are correct 
SPDX ids from the latest list. I have a number yet to add but build and 
packaging issues take priority for time over info tweaks.

curl/curl.cygport:LICENSE=curl
curl/curl.cygport:LICENSE_SPDX="SPDX-License-Identifier: curl"
curl/curl-spec-fedora.cygport:LICENSE=MIT
curl/curl-spec-fedora.cygport:LICENSE_SPDX="SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT"
curl/curl-spec-opensuse.cygport:LICENSE=curl
curl/curl-spec-opensuse.cygport:LICENSE_SPDX="SPDX-License-Identifier: curl"
curl/mingw64-i686-curl.cygport:LICENSE=curl
curl/mingw64-i686-curl.cygport:LICENSE_SPDX="SPDX-License-Identifier: curl"
curl/mingw64-x86_64-curl.cygport:LICENSE=curl
curl/mingw64-x86_64-curl.cygport:LICENSE_SPDX="SPDX-License-Identifier: 
curl"
man-pages-linux/man-pages-linux.cygport:LICENSE=verbatim
man-pages-linux/man-pages-linux.cygport:LICENSE_SPDX="SPDX-License-Identifier: 
Linux-man-pages-copyleft"
man-pages-posix/man-pages-posix.cygport:LICENSE=verbatim
man-pages-posix/man-pages-posix.cygport:LICENSE_SPDX="SPDX-License-Identifier: 
Linux-man-pages-copyleft
vttest/vttest.cygport:LICENSE=BSD
vttest/vttest.cygport:LICENSE_SPDX="SPDX-License-Identifier: 
BSD-Source-Code"
vttest/vttest-spec-fedora.cygport:LICENSE=MIT
vttest/vttest-spec-fedora.cygport:LICENSE_SPDX="SPDX-License-Identifier: 
MIT"

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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