[Dev] Update on the PKGBUILDs license

bill-auger bill-auger at peers.community
Fri Apr 29 04:26:49 GMT 2022


gnutoo has added some license headers to PKGBUILDs of this form:

> # Copyright (C) 2019,2020 Andreas Grapentin <andreasXgrapentin.org>
> # Copyright (C) 2019,2020,2021 bill-auger <bill-augerXprogrammer.net>
> # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
> # it under the terms of the CC0 1.0 License.
> # Maintainer: Andreas Grapentin <andreasXgrapentin.org>
> # Contributor: bill-auger <bill-augerXprogrammer.net>

that looks noisy to me - for one thing, it is redundant - 
each contributor would be listed twice

id like to suggest using the SPDX format instead:
> # SPDX-License-Identifier: CC0-1.0
> # Maintainer: Andreas Grapentin <andreasXgrapentin.org>
> # Contributor: bill-auger <bill-augerXprogrammer.net>

when i tried this, i noticed that my editor recognized it
and gives it a special color - that suggest to me that
these headers are widely known/acceptable these days
there is a lot of buzz in the libre community about REUSE,
which favors SPDX - i think we should encourage it


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