Quoting Russ Allbery (2023-09-10 21:41:59) > Jeremy Stanley <fu...@yuggoth.org> writes: > > > I'm surprised, for example, by the absence of the ISC license given that > > not only ISC's software but much of that originating from the OpenBSD > > ecosystem uses it. My personal software projects also use the ISC > > license. Are you aggregating the "License:" field in copyright files > > too, or is it really simply a hard-coded list of matching patterns? > > It's only a hard-coded list of matching patterns, and it doesn't match any > of the short licenses because historically I wasn't considering them (with > the exception of common-licenses references to the BSD license, which I > kind of would like to make an RC bug and clean up so that we could remove > the BSD license from common-licenses on the grounds that it's specific to > only the University of California and confuses people). If we go with any > sort of threshold, the script will need serious improvements. > > That was something else I wanted to ask: I've invested all of a couple of > hours in this script, and would be happy to throw it away in favor of > something that tries to do a more proper job of classifying the licenses > referenced in debian/copyright. Has someone already done this (Jonas, > perhaps)?
I have so far worked the most on identifying and grouping source data, putting only little attention (yet - but do dream big...) towards parsing and processing debian/copyright files e.g. to compare and assess how well aligned the file is with the content it is supposed to cover. So if I understand your question correctly and you are not looking for the output of `licensecheck --list-licenses`, then unfortunately I have nothing exciting to offer. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ * Sponsorship: https://ko-fi.com/drjones [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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