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| author | Michael Weiss <dev.primeos@gmail.com> | 2020-11-05 20:28:12 +0100 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2020-11-05 21:28:12 +0200 |
| commit | cc033e5476b40a97662f15af1736262371738e50 (patch) | |
| tree | ccf2a7bf6c582ca67b813e7c98df5d38135329d1 /docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md | |
| parent | 7860a6aeab9514391f02923a7f6357f094c8af68 (diff) | |
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docs: Recommend to use SPDX license identifiers [skip ci]
Some license identifiers are ambiguous (e.g. "GPL3"). The SPDX license
identifiers avoid this by providing standardized and unique identifiers
(e.g. "GPL-3.0-only" or "GPL-3.0-or-later" for the previous example).
Because SPDX short-form identifiers are also both human- and
machine-readable we should recommend them in the documentation.
More information (advantages, details, etc.) can be found here:
- https://spdx.dev/resources/use/#identifiers
- https://spdx.dev/ids/
Fix #7905.
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diff --git a/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md b/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md index ae0b9c9..3af78ef 100644 --- a/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md +++ b/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md @@ -1398,13 +1398,14 @@ Project supports the following keyword arguments. specific options are used normally even in subprojects. -- `license`: takes a string or array of strings describing the - license(s) the code is under. Usually this would be something like - `license : 'GPL2+'`, but if the code has multiple licenses you can - specify them as an array like this: `license : ['proprietary', - 'GPL3']`. Note that the text is informal and is only written to - the dependency manifest. Meson does not do any license validation, - you are responsible for verifying that you abide by all licensing +- `license`: takes a string or array of strings describing the license(s) the + code is under. To avoid ambiguity it is recommended to use a standardized + license identifier from the [SPDX license list](https://spdx.org/licenses/). + Usually this would be something like `license : 'GPL-2.0-or-later'`, but if + the code has multiple licenses you can specify them as an array like this: + `license : ['proprietary', 'GPL-3.0-only']`. Note that the text is informal + and is only written to the dependency manifest. Meson does not do any license + validation, you are responsible for verifying that you abide by all licensing terms. You can access the value in your Meson build files with `meson.project_license()`. |