On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 09:45:10AM +0100, Philippe Ombredanne wrote: > A license detection result can be: "I am 95% sure this is > GPL-2.0-only but it could be GPL-2.0+: please review me to fill in > your conclusion." > > So detection does not have to be binary as in either 100% right or > 100% wrong. If a tool can only report red or blue binary results, > that's a possibly fine but weak tool.
That makes sense to me, even if it doesn't work with GitHub's current license-reporting API [1] or UI [2]. But confidence percentages are part of Licensee's output [3], so the current limitation is one GitHub has knowingly taken on. Cheers, Trevor [1]: https://developer.github.com/v3/licenses/#get-the-contents-of-a-repositorys-license [2]: https://help.github.com/articles/adding-a-license-to-a-repository/ [3]: https://github.com/benbalter/licensee/blob/v9.6.0/docs/usage.md#advanced-api-usage -- This email may be signed or encrypted with GnuPG (http://www.gnupg.org). For more information, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy
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