REUSE compliance
Yegor Yefremov
yegorslists at googlemail.com
Thu Jul 29 13:24:21 UTC 2021
Hi,
On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 11:39 AM Aleksander Morgado
<aleksander at aleksander.es> wrote:
>
> Hey,
>
> > > > > what about changing the project, so that it complies to REUSE guidelines [1]?
> > > > >
> > > > > In short:
> > > > >
> > > > > 1. create a folder LICENSES and rename/move COPYING and COPYING.LIB there
> > > > > 2. replace licencing text in source files with SPDX identifier
> > > > >
> > > > > [1] https://reuse.software/spec/
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Sounds like a nice simplification; would you be willing to modify the
> > > > files accordingly?
> > >
> > > Sure. I'll start changing everything step by step.
> >
> > I have a dilemma: COPYING.LIB is actually LGPL-2.1-or-later [1] but
> > the header in source code (src/libmbim-glib/mbim-device.c) is
> > LGPL-2.0-or-later [2].
> >
> > So what should I take?
> >
>
> LGPL-2.1-or-later
I have pushed the first version [1] where I have also converted utils
and mbimcli, so we can discuss the layout of SPDX identifiers. We can
also use SPDX-FileCopyrightText tags instead of "Copyright" tags but
it is not mandatory.
src/mbimcli/mbimcli lacks copyright notice. What should I add?
[1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mobile-broadband/libmbim/-/merge_requests/81
Best regards,
Yegor
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