License field

[Robert Goldman]

On 10/16/15 Oct 16 -2:03 PM, Faré wrote:
> I propose we document that the license field should if possible
> contain an identifier from
>   http://spdx.org/licenses/
>   http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6867

Do you expect this field to be a string, or should it be encoded in some
special way (e.g., a keyword representation of the identifier)?

If we do the latter, we could check it but (a) this would bloat ASDF
further and (b) it would incur a maintenance debt in perpetuity as the
set of SPDX identifiers changes.

One more question: What if the software is NOT open source?

Cheers,
r