Re: [PATCH] add a reference to the official SPDX License List

Re: [PATCH] add a reference to the official SPDX License List

[Brian Inglis]

Spec link is already 404, so brittle, not necessarily current, and that licence 
list appendix is only informative and not current, so link to the actual current 
license list instead:

	https://spdx.org/licenses/

and provide a link to the generic current spec page which offers different formats:

	https://spdx.dev/specifications/#current-version

with something like (hacked from previous email):

diff --git a/packaging-hint-files.html b/packaging-hint-files.html
--- a/packaging-hint-files.html
+++ b/packaging-hint-files.html
@@ -406,7 +406,7 @@ version: <i>version</i>
      <p>
-      <code>license</code> is
-      a <a href="https://spdx.github.io/spdx-spec/SPDX-license-expressions/">SPDX
-      license expression</a> for the <a href="https://spdx.org/licenses/">open 
source license(s)</a> of the package
+      <a href="https://spdx.org/licenses/"><code>license</code></a> is an SPDX
+      <a href="https://spdx.dev/specifications/#current-version">license 
expression</a>
+      for the open source license(s)</a> of the package
        source code.
      </p>
    </li>

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

La perfection est atteinte			Perfection is achieved
non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter	not when there is no more to add
mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retirer	but when there is no more to cut
			-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

[PATCH] add a reference to the official SPDX License List

[Chad Dougherty]

this page contains the concrete license identifiers that packagers are
likely to want to include in their cygport files

I found this list quite useful and had several slightly incorrect
variations in my first attempt at creating a cygport before discovering
it.

Signed-off-by: Chad Dougherty <crd@acm.org>
---
 packaging-hint-files.html | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/packaging-hint-files.html b/packaging-hint-files.html
index 38ea2c8e..8c299ba3 100755
--- a/packaging-hint-files.html
+++ b/packaging-hint-files.html
@@ -406,7 +406,7 @@ version: <i>version</i>
     <p>
       <code>license</code> is
       a <a href="https://spdx.github.io/spdx-spec/SPDX-license-expressions/">SPDX
-      license expression</a> for the open source license(s) of the package
+      license expression</a> for the <a href="https://spdx.org/licenses/">open source license(s)</a> of the package
       source code.
     </p>
   </li>
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