[jira] [Created] (MNG-6677) Ability to declare machine-readable license identifier for project

["Vladimir Sitnikov (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Vladimir Sitnikov created MNG-6677:
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             Summary: Ability to declare machine-readable license identifier for project
                 Key: MNG-6677
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-6677
             Project: Maven
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: POM
    Affects Versions: 3.6.1
            Reporter: Vladimir Sitnikov


Current model for license is something, yet it is not machine-friendly.
Developers tend to put random data into {{<license><name>...</name><url>...</url>}}, and it is hard to analyze in automatic way.

What if we could use SPDX license identifiers/expressions for license information?

Note: currently POM is allowed to list multiple <license> tags, and it is not clear how they should be treated (and? or?).

So it would be nice if there was a way to declare a machine-readable license tag.

I'm not affiliated with SPDX, however OSGi use those ids: https://osgi.org/specification/osgi.core/7.0.0/framework.module.html#framework.module-bundle-license



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