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

["Michael Osipov (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Michael Osipov commented on MNG-6677:
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There is a similiar request on that matter. Please search for, I'd like to merge both tickets.

> 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
>            Priority: Major
>
> 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 allows to list multiple <license> tags, and it is not clear how they should be treated (and? or?). So a machine-readable field should probably allow for AND/OR license expressions.
> 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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