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The SPDX specification in MarkDown and HTML formats.
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SPDX spreadsheet format is not specified #690

Open vargenau opened 2 years ago

vargenau commented 2 years ago

".xls spreadsheets" is in the list of possible formats for SPDX documents, but is not specified.

We should at minimum:

Best would be to use what is implemented in the online conversion tool.

Also, we should allow .xls, .xlsx and .ods (ISO/IEC 26300 OpenDocument) instead of only .xls.

goneall commented 2 years ago

@vargenau Agree this should be specified.

I don't know if there is time to get this into 2.3 since we're pretty much finalizing the changes. @kestewart any opinions on getting this in?

For the formats, the SPDX translation tools currently support .xls and .xlsx but does not support .ods. We could document support of .xlsx immediately. I'm also OK documenting support for .ods and just calling the issue a bug for the tools.

I just added this issue to the tools-java to request adding that format (the tools-java code is used by the online-tools).

goneall commented 2 years ago

We didn't have any volunteer to document this for 2.3, so moving this to 3.0.

goneall commented 5 months ago

Moving to 3.1 in case we decide we want to support a spreadsheet format.