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Clarify that the license identifier is deprecated#128

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@jgneff jgneff commented Jan 2, 2022

Clarify that the SPDX license identifier, and not the license itself,
is deprecated.

Signed-off-by: John Neffenger john@status6.com

Clarify that the SPDX license identifier, and not the license itself,
is deprecated.

Signed-off-by: John Neffenger <john@status6.com>
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jgneff commented Jan 2, 2022

Closes #127.

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goneall commented Jan 3, 2022

@jlovejoy @swinslow @zvr FYI - This will change the text on the individual license pages. Let me know if you have any concerns about the change, otherwise I will merge these in.

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goneall commented Jan 3, 2022

@jgneff Thanks for the PR. Do you need this included in the next publication of the license list? If so, I can spin another release of the utility.

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jgneff commented Jan 3, 2022

Do you need this included in the next publication of the license list?

@goneall Thanks, Gary. You can update the website whenever is convenient. I suspect most people don't click through from the Ubuntu and GNOME Software apps to the SPDX website, but it's just something that has been bothering me for quite some time.

By the way, I was going to be even more specific with the text "This SPDX license identifier has been deprecated since license list version ...", but "SPDX" is not used anywhere else on the page when talking about the identifier, so I just added the one word.

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swinslow commented Jan 4, 2022

+1 to the change, definitely clearer with adding "identifier" here. Thank you @jgneff!

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jlovejoy commented Jan 4, 2022

+1 - agreed, this is more accurate. Good catch!

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goneall commented Jan 5, 2022

The check failed due to a known issue #129

I'll go ahead and merge the PR.

@goneall goneall merged commit b8718c7 into spdx:master Jan 5, 2022
@jgneff jgneff deleted the clarify-deprecated branch January 5, 2022 17:02
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