[QE-developers] (Suggestion) Adopt SPDX for mark licenses on all QE codebase

[Pietro Delugas]

Ciao Filippo

I think it is a good idea.  I have been looking at it recently.  It will 
help contributors who want or need to use licenses less strict than GPL.

Pietro


Pietro

On 25/02/19 09:31, Filippo Spiga wrote:
> SPDX (https://spdx.org) is an open standard to properly mark software license in source code. It is gaining lot of popularity. By adopting it consistently, it is easy to extract metadata information related to large a codebase (it really becomes a matter of running "grep" over a single line). The motivation behind SPDX is well described in this video (alongside some stats related to the license of the linux kernel): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCWjzgIV42M
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> Example: https://spdx.org/sites/cpstandard/files/pages/files/using_spdx_license_list_short_identifiers.pdf
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> IMO QE should adopt it for the next major release.
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