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-<h2>Status</h2>
+Status: draft
-<strong>Draft</strong>
+==Issue==
-<h2>Issue</h2>
+There are some licensing scenarios which are not expressable in SPDX. For example, there is currently no way to express that a file can be used under the licenses A and B or A and C.
-<p>There are some licensing scenarios which are not expressable in SPDX.  For example, there is currently no way to express that a file can be used under the licenses A and B or A and C.</p>
+==Use cases==
-<h3>Use cases</h3>
+The set of use cases we need to be able to describe in SPDX is:
-<p>The set of use cases we need to be able to describe in SPDX is:</p>
+# a single license
-<ol>
+==Proposal==
-<li><p>a single license</p></li>
-<li><p>choice of one from multiple single licenses</p></li>
-<li><p>multiple licenses (conjunctive)</p></li>
-<li><p>choice of one from multiple conjunctive license sets</p></li>
-</ol>
-−
-<h2>Proposal</h2>
-<p>Introduce a license set concept to cover all these use cases.  Specifically, a `ConjunctiveLicenseSet` and a `DisjunctiveLicenseSet`.  Members of these types of sets would be of type `License`, `ConjunctiveLicenseSet` or `DisjunctiveLicenseSet`.  This would allow composing licensing information in arbitrary conjunctive and disjunctive groupings.</p>
+Introduce a license set concept to cover all these use cases. Specifically, a `ConjunctiveLicenseSet` and a `DisjunctiveLicenseSet`. Members of these types of sets would be of type `License`, `ConjunctiveLicenseSet` or `DisjunctiveLicenseSet`. This would allow composing licensing information in arbitrary conjunctive and disjunctive groupings.
-<p>The definition of `License` would not change. The `DeclaredLicense` and `DetectedLicense` properties would be updated to allow their value to be a `License`, `ConjunctiveLicenseSet`, or `DisjunctiveLicenseSet`.</p>
+The definition of `License` would not change. The `DeclaredLicense` and `DetectedLicense` properties would be updated to allow their value to be a `License`, `ConjunctiveLicenseSet`, or `DisjunctiveLicenseSet`.
-<h3>Examples</h3>
+===Examples===
-<h4>Single license</h4>
+====Single license====
-<pre><code><br />    &lt;Package&gt;<br />      &lt;DeclaredLicense&gt;<br />        &lt;rdf:Description rdf:about="license:GPL" /&gt;<br />      &lt;/DeclaredLicense&gt;<br />    &lt;/Package&gt;<br /></code></pre>
+    <Package>
-<h4>Disjunctive licenses</h4>
+====Disjunctive licenses====
-<pre><code><br />    &lt;Package&gt;<br />      &lt;DeclaredLicense&gt;<br />        &lt;ConjunctiveLicenseSet&gt;<br />          &lt;licenses rdf:parseType="Collection"&gt;<br />            &lt;rdf:Description rdf:about="license:GPL" /&gt;<br />            &lt;rdf:Description rdf:about="license:BSD" /&gt;<br />          &lt;/licenses&gt;<br />        &lt;/ConjunctiveLicenseSet&gt;<br />      &lt;/DeclaredLicense&gt;<br />    &lt;/Package&gt;<br /></code></pre>
+    <Package>
-<h4>Complex disjunctive licenses</h4>
+====Complex disjunctive licenses====
-<pre><code><br />    &lt;Package&gt;<br />      &lt;DeclaredLicense&gt;<br />        &lt;DisjuntiveLicenseSet&gt;<br />          &lt;licenses rdf:parseType="Collection"&gt;<br />            &lt;ConjunctiveLicenseSet&gt;<br />              &lt;licenses rdf:parseType="Collection"&gt;<br />                &lt;rdf:Description rdf:about="license:GPL" /&gt;<br />                &lt;rdf:Description rdf:about="license:BSD" /&gt;<br />              &lt;/licenses&gt;<br />            &lt;/ConjunctiveLicenseSet&gt;<br />            &lt;ConjunctiveLicenseSet&gt;<br />              &lt;licenses rdf:parseType="Collection"&gt;<br />                &lt;rdf:Description rdf:about="license:GPL" /&gt;<br />                &lt;rdf:Description rdf:about="license:Apache" /&gt;<br />              &lt;/licenses&gt;<br />            &lt;/ConjunctiveLicenseSet&gt;<br />          &lt;/licenses&gt;<br />        &lt;/DisjuntiveLicenseSet&gt;<br />      &lt;/DeclaredLicense&gt;<br />    &lt;/Package&gt;<br /><br /></code></pre>
+    <Package>
-<h3>Changes</h3>
+These changes are available in the [https://github.com/pezra/spdx-spec/tree/compositeslicensing 'composite-licensing'] branch of https://github.com/pezra/spdx-spec.git. A full version of the spec with these changes is attached, as is a patch file to implement these changes.
-<p>These changes are available in the <a href="https://github.com/pezra/spdx-spec/tree/compositeslicensing">'composite-licensing'</a> branch of <a href="https://github.com/pezra/spdx-spec.git">https://github.com/pezra/spdx-spec.git</a>.  A full version of the spec with these changes is attached, as is a patch file to implement these changes.</p>
+[[Category:Technical]]

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-<h2>Status</h2><p>
+<h2>Status</h2>
-<strong>Draft</strong></p>
+<strong>Draft</strong>
 <h2>Issue</h2>

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 <h2>Issue</h2>
-<p>There are some licensing scenarios which are not expressable in SPDX.
+<p>There are some licensing scenarios which are not expressable in SPDX.  For example, there is currently no way to express that a file can be used under the licenses A and B or A and C.</p>
 For example, there is currently no way to express that a file can be
 used under the licenses A and B or A and C.</p>
 <h3>Use cases</h3>
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 <h2>Proposal</h2>
-<p>Introduce a license set concept to cover all these use cases.
+<p>Introduce a license set concept to cover all these use cases.  Specifically, a `ConjunctiveLicenseSet` and a `DisjunctiveLicenseSet`.  Members of these types of sets would be of type `License`, `ConjunctiveLicenseSet` or `DisjunctiveLicenseSet`.  This would allow composing licensing information in arbitrary conjunctive and disjunctive groupings.</p>
 Specifically, a `ConjunctiveLicenseSet` and a `DisjunctiveLicenseSet`.  Members of these types of sets would be of
 type `License`, `ConjunctiveLicenseSet` or `DisjunctiveLicenseSet`.
 This would allow composing licensing information in arbitrary
 conjunctive and disjunctive groupings.</p>
-<p>The definition of `License` would not change. The `DeclaredLicense` and `DetectedLicense` properties would be
+<p>The definition of `License` would not change. The `DeclaredLicense` and `DetectedLicense` properties would be updated to allow their value to be a `License`, `ConjunctiveLicenseSet`, or `DisjunctiveLicenseSet`.</p>
 updated to allow their value to be a `License`,
 `ConjunctiveLicenseSet`, or `DisjunctiveLicenseSet`.</p>
 <h3>Examples</h3>

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−	<h3>Changes</~~h3><~~h3>	+	<h3>Changes</h3>

−	<p>These changes are available in the <a href="~~"~~https://github.com/pezra/spdx-spec/tree/compositeslicensing">'composite-licensing'</a> branch of <a href="https://github.com/pezra/spdx-spec.git">https://github.com/pezra/spdx-spec.git</a>. A full version of the spec with these changes is attached, as is a patch file to implement these changes.</p~~></h3~~>	+	<p>These changes are available in the <a href="https://github.com/pezra/spdx-spec/tree/compositeslicensing">'composite-licensing'</a> branch of <a href="https://github.com/pezra/spdx-spec.git">https://github.com/pezra/spdx-spec.git</a>. A full version of the spec with these changes is attached, as is a patch file to implement these changes.</p>

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 <p>Introduce a license set concept to cover all these use cases.
-Specifically, a `ConjunctiveLicenseSet`, a `DisjunctiveLicenseSet` and
+Specifically, a `ConjunctiveLicenseSet` and a `DisjunctiveLicenseSet`.  Members of these types of sets would be of
-a `LicenseOrLaterVersion`.  Members of these types of sets would be of
 type `License`, `ConjunctiveLicenseSet` or `DisjunctiveLicenseSet`.
 This would allow composing licensing information in arbitrary
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 <h3>Changes</h3><h3>
-<p>These changes are available in the <a href="https://github.com/pezra/spdx-spec/tree/compositeslicensing>'composite-licensing'</a> branch of <a href="https://github.com/pezra/spdx-spec.git">https://github.com/pezra/spdx-spec.git</a>.  A full version of the spec with these changes is attached, as is a patch file to implement these changes.</p></h3>
+<p>These changes are available in the <a href="&quot;https://github.com/pezra/spdx-spec/tree/compositeslicensing">'composite-licensing'</a> branch of <a href="https://github.com/pezra/spdx-spec.git">https://github.com/pezra/spdx-spec.git</a>.  A full version of the spec with these changes is attached, as is a patch file to implement these changes.</p></h3>

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 <pre><code><br />    &lt;Package&gt;<br />      &lt;DeclaredLicense&gt;<br />        &lt;LicenseOrLaterVersion&gt;<br />          &lt;BaseLicense rdf:about="license:GPLv2" /&gt;<br />        &lt;/LicenseOrLaterVersion&gt;<br />      &lt;/DeclaredLicense&gt;<br />    &lt;/Package&gt;<br /></code></pre>
-<h3>Changes<h3>
+<h3>Changes</h3><h3>
-<p>These changes are available in the <a href="https://github.com/pezra/spdx-spec/tree/license-sets">'license-sets'</a> branch of <a href="https://github.com/pezra/spdx-spec.git">https://github.com/pezra/spdx-spec.git</a>.  A full version of the spec with these changes is attached, as is a patch file to implement these changes.</p>
+<p>These changes are available in the <a href="https://github.com/pezra/spdx-spec/tree/license-sets">'license-sets'</a> branch of <a href="https://github.com/pezra/spdx-spec.git">https://github.com/pezra/spdx-spec.git</a>.  A full version of the spec with these changes is attached, as is a patch file to implement these changes.</p></h3>

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−	<pre><code><br /> <Package><br /> <DeclaredLicense><br /> <LicenseOrLaterVersion><br /> <BaseLicense rdf:about="license:GPLv2" /><br /> </LicenseOrLaterVersion><br /> </DeclaredLicense><br /> </Package><br /></code></pre>	+	<pre><code><br /> <Package><br /> <DeclaredLicense><br /> <LicenseOrLaterVersion><br /> <BaseLicense rdf:about="license:GPLv2" /><br /> </LicenseOrLaterVersion><br /> </DeclaredLicense><br /> </Package><br /></code></pre>
		+
		+	<h3>Changes<h3>
		+
		+	<p>These changes are available in the <a href="https://github.com/pezra/spdx-spec/tree/license-sets">'license-sets'</a> branch of <a href="https://github.com/pezra/spdx-spec.git">https://github.com/pezra/spdx-spec.git</a>. A full version of the spec with these changes is attached, as is a patch file to implement these changes.</p>