SPDX License List is a list of (common) open source
licenses that can be referred to by a “short identifier”.
It has several advantages compared to the common "license header texts"
usually found in source files.
Some of the advantages:
* It is precise; there is no ambiguity due to variations in license header
text
* It is language neutral
* It is easy to machine process
* It is concise
* It is simple and can be used without much cost in interpreted
environments like java Script, etc.
* An SPDX license identifier is immutable.
* It provides simple guidance for developers who want to make sure the
license for their code is respected
See http://spdx.org for further reading.
Signed-off-by: Marcus Folkesson <marcus.folkesson@gmail.com>
Closes: #1439
Approved by: cgwalters
For many cases of commit, we can actually optimize things by simply "adopting"
the object rather than writing a new copy. For example, in rpm-ostree package
layering.
We can only make that optimization though if we take ownership of the file. This
commit hence adds an API where a caller tells us to do so. For now, that just
means we `unlink()` the files/dirs as we go, but we can now later add the
"adopt" optimization.
Closes: #1255
Approved by: jlebon
This was already supported by the commit modifier API, just needed to
expose it. This will also be used to test the libarchive API in a future
test.
Closes: #275
Approved by: cgwalters
Marcus Folkesson
Colin Walters
Mathnerd314
Giuseppe Scrivano
Jonathan Lebon