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annotations: Use SPDX License Expressions for licenses
Instead of comma-separated short identifiers, which have unclear semantics (are the delimiters AND or OR?). I don't see any discussion of the syntax for this field in [1] (which landed it), but I'd floaded license expressions before in the sub-thread starting at [2]. Greg had pushed back against my earlier proposal (licensing information on descriptors) with [3]: > No, that's not going to work at all, you can't properly describe the > license for a whole layer in any form of a string that could be > standardized or parsed. SPDX is great for describing the individual > licenses of things, but not for a collection of things, which almost > always has an arbitrary license (example, what's the license, in a > simple string, for a Ubuntu base layer?) But SPDX License Expression are both more expressive and better defined than the current comma delimiters. Everything you could have said with the comma-delimited string you can say more clearly with a SPDX License Expression. And because the syntax is not OCI-specific, you're more likely to be able to find tooling that handles these values out of the box. [1]: opencontainers#636 [2]: opencontainers#501 (comment) [3]: opencontainers#501 (comment) Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <[email protected]>
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