[GRASS-dev] Version DOI missing for GRASS 8.3.0

[Vaclav Petras]

On Tue, 8 Aug 2023 at 12:26, Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:

> Hi Peter,
>
> On Tue, Aug 8, 2023 at 5:04 PM Peter Löwe <peter.loewe at gmx.de> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Markus,
> > the licence ID for GRASS GIS 7.8.8. on its landing page reads:
> > "Other (Open)"
>
> I have seen it, too. Unfortunately not the precise licence description.
>
> > This setting goes back to GRASS GIS 7.8.6.
> > Since this is (just) landing page metadata, this can be changed after
> the minting of the DOI and the file upload into Zenodo.
> >
> > The landing page for GRASS GIS 8.2.0 (https://zenodo.org/record/6612307)
> has different licence metadata: "GNU General Public License v2.0 or later",
> which points to https://opensource.org/license/gpl-2-0/
> >
> > Did GRASS GIS 8.2.0 get maybe manually checked into Zenodo ?
>
> I am not aware that anyone manually uploaded a GRASS GIS release to Zenodo.
>
> > Otherwise this could be a Zenodo-sided bug ("worked before")..?
>
> Probably they treated non-SPDX conformant license identifiers (here:
> "GPL-2.0-or-later") differently?
> Just guessing: In the past they changed it to "Other (Open)" and now
> it is (randomly) failing?
>

I think it was two different things. The 7.8 branch info for Zenodo is just
picked from GitHub metadata, while 8.2 and 8.3 are using the CFF file.
Between the latest 8.2 and 8.3.0, Zenodo also happened to change how a
non-conformat license entry is handled.
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