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Jochen Wiedmann commented on RAT-251:
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Okay. As of this writing, we are not identifying a particular section of the
file, aka the file header. So, there are two things to do:
# Identify a mapping between the current set of licenses, as supported by Rat,
and the SPDX identifiers. That's something, we could use your help with.
# Scan the files for strings like "SPDX-License-Identifier: <ID>". If such a
string is detected, and a license with the given <ID> is present: Take that as
a match.
> Support for SPDX identifiers
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> Key: RAT-251
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RAT-251
> Project: Apache Rat
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Szymon Janc
> Priority: Major
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> would be great if RAT could understand SPDX identifiers as this makes licence
> compliance checking much simpler
> https://spdx.org/
> https://spdx.org/licenses/
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