Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] metadata: Add license-mapping.conf for SPDX license mapping

[Michał Górny]

On Sun, 2022-11-13 at 17:46 +0000, Sam James wrote:
>
> > On 13 Nov 2022, at 11:58, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
> >
> > Add a file defining mapping of SPDX-2.0 license identifiers to Gentoo
> > ebuild licenses.  This was originally discussed on Gentoo Bugzilla [1],
> > the submitted to the gentoo-dev ml [2].
> >
> > The proposed file uses the common key-value format used for
> > configuration files.  Currently only `spdx-to-ebuild` section is defined
> > but other kinds of mapping can be added in the future.  As described
> > in the top comment, it provides the ability to map SPDX-2.0 license
> > identifiers along with the `+` and `WITH` operators to arbitrary
> > Gentoo LICENSE strings (including all-of and any-of groups).
> >
> > The initial list is taken from cargo-ebuild's license.rs [3],
> > courtesy of Leonardo H. Neumann and Georgy Yakovlev.  A parser for this
> > file format is implemented in pycargoebuild [4].
> >
> > [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/706472
> > [2] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/01924bb71411696dce04445d85da508d
> > [3] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/cargo-ebuild.git/tree/src/license.rs?id=b4314edc5bb672f5e94dcbc996f443e98fdb4dba
> > [4] https://github.com/projg2/pycargoebuild/
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o>
> > ---
> > metadata/license-mapping.conf | 171 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 171 insertions(+)
> > create mode 100644 metadata/license-mapping.conf
> >
>
> I like the idea.
>
> If/when we do this:
> - Should this be in a GLEP?
>

I don't think we need a GLEP, the comment on top should be sufficient to
explain how it's supposed to work.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny