Proposal: Allow REUSE compatible License Statements in License Policy

[Mirko Boehm (KDE)]

Hi,

> On 13. Jan 2020, at 21:18, Johan Ouwerkerk <jm.ouwerkerk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> - current version of the draft: https://community.kde.org/Policies/ <https://community.kde.org/Policies/>
>> Licensing_Policy/Draft_SPDX_v2
>> 
> 
> One thing that is not entirely clear to me is what our position would
> be towards e.g. *.license files or DEP5 files as suggested by the
> REUSE spec.

My recommendation is to choose one. The more widely used and recommended option is SPDX. There is more tooling emerging around the SPDX format because of that. The REUSE specs give a choice, the focus is on “use a common, machine-readable format”. I suggest we use SPDX.

Best,

Mirko.
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