DEP5 and spdx shortname of license

[Fabio Fantoni <fantonifabio@tiscali.it>]

Hi, spdx has an ever-increasing usage. Today trying reuse tool I tried 
to convert DEP5 d/copyright to REUSE.toml thinking a possible help to 
some project upstream, when license and copyright "management" is not 
good, converting from d/copyright (DEP5) which is better, for example 
with additional parts resulting from research done on files that were 
taken from other projects but did not contain headers with license and 
copyright.

I noticed that even though reuse supports DEP5 the short license names 
used by Debian (and partly by spdx but deprecated) were not supported.

So I wonder, is it possible to put in d/copyright DEP5 the short license 
names using the spdx ones?

I supposeeven using them by default in the future could help the 
contributors (especially the new ones)who already know and use spdx and 
maybe it could help them to reduce the time of creation and management 
of d/copyright files (unfortunately often long even using very useful 
tools like decopy, licensecheck and lrc). What do you think?

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