[od-discuss] SPDX license taxonomy

Tue Jun 17 19:43:19 UTC 2014

On 06/17/2014 05:51 AM, Andrew Katz wrote:
> I realise we were discussing co-ordination with the SPDX license
> taxonomy last year. Here’s the current list: http://spdx.org/licenses/
> 
> However, it occurs to me the SPDX is now moving towards a more finely
> grained approach, and we good to bear this in mind as we get into the
> licence examination process.
> 
> Do we have anyone here with a foot in both camps? It would be good to
> have an update from someone at SPDX on how the 2.0 process is going.

I intend to send a message to their public list, see
https://github.com/okfn/opendefinition/issues/27#issuecomment-46214466

AFAIK their 2.0 won't change how they see licenses at all; the finer
grained thing is how they model licensed material, at least that's what
I gather from a recent slide deck
https://lists.spdx.org/pipermail/spdx/attachments/20140402/0e357fce/attachment-0001.pdf

In any case we're initially only interested in their repository of
license texts. If some additional collaboration with them on license
metadata (beyond naming implied by file names in their repo) turns out
to be useful, that'd be fine too.

Let me know if I'm missing something.

Mike