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short license identifiers

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Start by reviewing the proposal in this issue and the repository's governance documents; no implementation files or tests are identified. Done would require a resolved TOC decision and a clearly defined adoption or graduation requirement for SPDX-style license identifiers.

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Description

Consider having CNCF projects adopt SPDX style short license identifiers

SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0

We could potentially make this a graduation requirement, but not sure what the TOC will think.

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Avg merge
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Merged PRs (30d)
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