On 08/08/2014 09:36, pulkomandy wrote: > Hi, > > Today I discovered the SPDX license list: http://spdx.org/licenses/ > > This is a list of "well known" free software licenses. They attributed > an unique identifier to each license so it's clear which is which. This > avoids the confusion of the various variations on the BSD and MIT/X11 > licenses. for example. Well it's not that much different than the names we currently use, just maybe more canonical than our own. But we already have the "BSD (N-clause)" cases. > I'm wondering if we should switch to this for our data/licenses folder. > Our current naming scheme there is quite arbitrary, and using a common > one like this sounds like a good idea. All the licenses in the SPDX list > could be added to a package, and other packages could rely on it to > provide license texts. Possibly. We should probably use it for newer licenses at least. For ex, I was wondering about "CC BY-SA 3.0", "CC-BY-SA-3.0" or "CC by-sa 3.0" the other day... François.