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Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) (clackemovedtoheldscalla@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 13-Jun-2016 14:29:00 UTC Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) There is a computer-readable language for describing licenses. I'm not thinking of ccREL, but something else, used by some Debian project. -
Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) (clackemovedtoheldscalla@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 13-Jun-2016 14:30:24 UTC Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) I remember that the name was short, like 4-5 characters, and it was confusing, because it sounded like something else. -
Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) (clackemovedtoheldscalla@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 13-Jun-2016 14:31:45 UTC Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) Hah! Just seconds later I discover the right combination of search parameters and find https://spdx.org/ . That's what I was looking for. -
Bob Mottram (bob@primatemind.info)'s status on Monday, 13-Jun-2016 14:40:15 UTC Bob Mottram @clacke just making a license compatibility matrix might be easier than RDF/OWL Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) repeated this. -
Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) (clackemovedtoheldscalla@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 13-Jun-2016 15:37:49 UTC Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) @bob What I was really looking for was a convenient service to query for the license of any particular package. Conclusion: Does not exist. -
Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) (clackemovedtoheldscalla@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 13-Jun-2016 15:39:02 UTC Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) @bob There is the "Copyright File" link on package pages at https://packages.debian.org/ , but that's it. No API, no summaries. -
Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) (clackemovedtoheldscalla@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 13-Jun-2016 15:40:44 UTC Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) @bob I learned that Debian has a license description format DEP-5*, somewhat harmonized with SPDX.
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Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) (clackemovedtoheldscalla@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 13-Jun-2016 15:43:16 UTC Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) @bob I also learned that 3 years after its introduction, most packages still don't use DEP-5. Most have only human-readable copyright meta.
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