Using an SPDX identifier as the license name in example

[slawekjaranowski]

According to recommendation a few lines below

[michael-o]

Looking at https://spdx.org/licenses/ it differentiates between name and id. Here, we abuse our name as id. I consider this to be logically wrong.

[slawekjaranowski]

Looking at https://spdx.org/licenses/ it differentiates between name and id. Here, we abuse our name as id. I consider this to be logically wrong.

We have text:

Using an https://spdx.org/licenses/}SPDX identifier as the license name is recommended.

So how should be ...

I merged similar in ASF parent pom 😄

[michael-o]

Looking at https://spdx.org/licenses/ it differentiates between name and id. Here, we abuse our name as id. I consider this to be logically wrong.

We have text:

Using an https://spdx.org/licenses/}SPDX identifier as the license name is recommended.

So how should be ...

I merged similar in ASF parent pom 😄

I know that we have it and only because we don't have an id element. For me, it feels wrong, honestly, but I won't object to merge it.

[kwin]

For me id is more useful than an arbitrary label. Therefore I think we should stick to using an id in the name element (although the naming of the element is unfortunate)

[michael-o]

For me id is more useful than an arbitrary label. Therefore I think we should stick to using an id in the name element (although the naming of the element is unfortunate)

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