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appendix-IV: Refactor the license expression appendix
This is a large diff, but I aimed for restructuring/polishing without changing the end result. I did make a few minor, intentional changes: * Extended license-id to include appendix I.3 (deprecated licenses). We don't want folks using these in license expressions (because they're deprecated), but they are valid (or we would have removed them instead of just deprecating them). That means that in some cases the nature of a string is unclear. For example 'GPL-1.0+' could be the depreacted license-id, or it could be a simple-expression using the non-deprecated GPL-1.0 license-id and the + operator. I don't think that's a problem though, because I can't think of a case where the ambiguity would matter. * I've allowed + for license-ref (it used to be only for license-id). There could be external licenses which offer a choice between only-this-version and or-later grants, and allowing + for license-ref makes it easier to support those licenses as they transition into the SPDX License List. This isn't a big deal, but it avoids needing separate license-refs for the only-this-version and or-later grants if you need both. * I've added explicit whitespace handling, vs. the previous version which just discussed it in the text. That way the ABNF is the sole source of normative syntax information. * I've added enclosed-license-expression, so consumers like the tag:value format can suggest/require it. This allows for more precision in consumers (e.g. appendix V should be updated to require enclosed-license-expression), but I've left those other sections alone for this commit. Ideally the tag:value line would be moved to a separate section that defined the tag-value format, but we don't have such a section yet [1]. * I've added Gary's documentation for spdx:OrLaterOperator [2]; previously there was no way to represent the + operator in RDF/XML. Also, it seems odd that there's no way to define an external license exception (LicenseExceptionRef?). But I haven't touched that in this commit. The RDF/XML bindings seem to have a hole around the WITH operators. I've left a FIXME where I think we need adjustments. The HTML comment avoids the ambiguous four-space indent after the list. Without the comment, it could be parsed as a code block (which is what we want) [3] or a second paragraph of the final list entry [4] (which is not what we want). The HTML comment closes the list to resolve the ambiguity. [1]: spdx#22 (comment) [2]: spdx#37 (comment) [3]: https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#precode "To produce a code block in Markdown, simply indent every line of the block by at least 4 spaces or 1 tab" [4]: https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#list "Each subsequent paragraph in a list item must be indented by either 4 spaces or one tab"
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