Hi All,
Some time ago we decided to adopt SPDX license identifiers in the
license array of PKGBUILD's. Without having progress reports its hard to
know what the current status is, so I made a little script with some
borrowed logic from namcap. [1]
This uses expac to extract the licenses array from the local package
sync db (/var/lib/pacman/sync). The unknown / invalid entries are
emitted on stderr and stdout contains JSON data to be consumed by
whatever tool you might suit you :-)
A test run on my machine gave the following output, in summary: [2]
* invalid: 62
* unknown: 4743
I hope having an easy script to collect statistics will move the
conversion process forward. But do note that the original RFC does not
yet tackle the `custom` license question. [3]
[1] https://github.com/jelly/Dotfiles/blob/master/bin/arch-spdx-statistics
[2]
https://gist.githubusercontent.com/jelly/c5b790c3b1223f91362d956d50401e93/raw/0d14618fa3853c27571fc32af708efa34bd3674d/gistfile1.txt
[3]
https://rfc.archlinux.page/0016-spdx-license-identifiers/#unresolved-questions
