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Technical Team/Use Cases/2.0/Committer annotates source files with SPDX data
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- Title: Committer annotates source files with SPDX data
- Primary Actor: Committer
- Goal in Context: To indicate SPDX data for the file in the source code file.
- Preconditions:
- Committer has decided the license for the file they are committing
- Stakeholders and Interests:
- Committer:
- To communicate the license information for the file in line with the file.
- Upstream maintainers:
- To be able to have the source code be self documenting in a machine and human readable manner with respect to license information.
- 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: Source code files contain complete accurate SPDX data sufficient to communicate their licensing information in a way that is both human and machine readable.
- Failed End Condition: Source code files lack complete accurate SPDX data.
- Trigger:
- Commit of code to an upstream project.
- Notes: There may be sub-use cases here around the distinction between original authorship of a file and capturing in SPDX existing information about the file, either from existing file headers or from commit logs.