No UI for WITH (and no valid SPDX for “GPL-2.0-only-WITH-Classpath-exception-2.0”)

[ariel11]

Currently, the curation UI only has AND / OR buttons. There are about two dozen "exceptions" you would add using "WITH," as specified by the SPDX formatting guidelines - see list here: https://spdx.org/licenses/exceptions-index.html. I think we need to add a "WITH" button to the curation UI.

Additionally, right now the drop-down menu has “GPL-2.0-with-classpath-exception,” which is not in SPDX format. There are a number of glassfish/Oracle components using this license scheme and the SPDX format would be “GPL-2.0-only-WITH-Classpath-exception-2.0.”

There is currently no way to curate the above in correct SPDX format. When I see this I update the yaml file but am running into merged curations that use the non-SPDX format that is available in the drop-down menu (e.g. https://github.com/clearlydefined/curated-data/pull/3242/files). Can we also remove this incorrect, non-SPDX option of “GPL-2.0-with-classpath-exception?"

[geneh]

"GPL-2.0-with-classpath-exception" is pulled from the SPDX library: https://github.com/sindresorhus/spdx-license-list/blob/master/licenses/GPL-2.0-with-classpath-exception.json

Another example is Apache v2.0 WITH LLVM exception.

There is certainly a gap in the UI.

[clearlyoss]

Related to this thread will there be support for custom license types? Often in a scan report we get back license types customized from the standard SPDX license type and it would be great to have the ability to includes this license and upload the text. I believe the SPDX spec supports custom license types.

[ariel11]

Also see clearlydefined/website#878