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

[Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>]

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> On 13 Nov 2022, at 11:58, Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> 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@gentoo.org>
> ---
> 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?
- It needs pkgcheck support for e.g. invalid entries, duplicates.


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