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License should take and SPDX identifier/expression (or in an alternative field) #86

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puerco opened this issue Jul 10, 2024 · 0 comments

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puerco commented Jul 10, 2024

When parsing machine readable data, it is much more useful to have an SPDX license identifier (or an SPDX expression .

The current license field points to a URL, which is useful, but tools parsing the insights yaml can provide better results if the license type is already in a machine readable format. This is the standard used by both SBOM formats.

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