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It sounds like there's some crossover here between this project and the Debian copyright file (https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0
by hlieberman 9y ago
It sounds like there's some crossover here between this project and the Debian copyright file (https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-forma...).
Specifically, the Debian copyright file provides full annotation about what parts of a package are licensed under what and by who. It only indicates licenses -- it's up to the end users to determine what those mean -- but it is machine readable.
The names of the licenses themselves are part of a list of names called SPDX that's used across distributions and is developed by the Linux Foundation.
- Sirikon 9y agoDidn't knew about this! Thank you for pointing this up :)
- hlieberman 9y agoGlad to! It’s a good resource; basically every single package in Debian has this annotation, which means an absolutely huge amount of code is covered.
- spiralx 9y agoThere's also the full SPDX spec here: https://spdx.org/ https://spdx.org/ which as the GP says is the source of license codes used by Debian, as well as the license field in NPM's package.json. https://spdx.org/licenses/ https://spdx.org/licenses/