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Technical Team/Use Cases/2.0/Contributor makes commit subject to existing SPDX data of project
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- Title: Contributor makes commit subject to existing SPDX data of project
- Primary Actor: Committer
- Goal in Context: To indicate the commit is subject to existing SPDX data for the project.
- Preconditions:
- Committer has decided to accept the licensing for the project
- The Upstream Maintainer is providing SPDX data for the project.
- Stakeholders and Interests:
- Committer:
- To communicate that their commit is licensed in alignment with the SPDX data for the project.
- Upstream maintainers:
- To be able to document the license information for the commits they receive
- To communicate the licensing information for their copyrightable artifacts.
- To have their licenses respected
- Consumers of upstream source:
- To receive accurate and clear information of licensing of upstream source
- To be able to comply easily with licenses for upstream source
- To be able to subset, extend, or aggregate artifacts and pass on clear authoritative verifiable license for the resulting new copyrightable artifacts.
- Committer:
- Main Success Senario: Committer communicates that they are agreeing to the SPDX data for the project applying to their commit.
- Failed End Condition: Committer communicates inaccurate incomplete licensing information for their package.
- Trigger:
- Commit of code to an upstream project.
- Notes: