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CLI option to convert a single SPDX Expression (String) to RDF

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start by locating the existing CLI option that converts a single license to RDF and the code that parses SPDX expressions. Define the accepted input and output behavior for compound expressions, then verify the CLI produces valid RDF for representative expressions.

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Description

enhancement

While this is trivial for a single license without expression, it would be nice to have this for more complex expressions.
This would be useful for a wide variety of tools that take user-input, and generate RDF, where licensing is part of the input.

(a few years ago, I opened a similar issue somewhere else, which you @goneall responded to)

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Java
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