Steve Winslow

I'd misunderstood this issue when I first read it -- I thought that the request was to _add_ the "Alternatively, ..." license. But looking more closely, I see that that...

Hi @ferdnyc, thanks for your detailed thoughts here! I agree, and this is something that has been sitting in the back of my mind for some time now. The specific...

Thank you @szepeviktor and @xsuchy! I'll take a look and see if I can figure anything out from the failing tests.

I think the tests here are failing because of some combination of issues in the license matcher involving: 1. the `spacing` attribute for `` tags (see the XML schema [line...

Thanks all and apologies for the slow response. Agreed with @mlinksva -- SPDX only deprecates identifiers when the SPDX ID itself is being deprecated. When the license steward instead changes...

+1 to add CC-BY-NC-3.0-IGO, based on our practice of adding CC variants to the list when there is evidence of actual use in the wild -- which there is here,...

To the extent this was about representing "official translations" of licenses, there was a discussion in license-list-XML at https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/438 about this a few years ago, with the general outcome deciding...

DIscussed on 2025-08-05 joint legal / tech team call. There is interest in having some way to represent that some licenses are "official" translations of others that may be on...

Hi @pmonks, Thanks for your thoughts here. This has occasionally come up in the past as a topic for consideration whether to include in SPDX. My understanding of the current...

@zvr With that in mind -- would you view the goal here being: 1. metadata in the schema itself, reflecting the relationship between "translation" versions of licenses; or 2. something...