Handle open OSI license choices

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Handle open OSI license choices #3995

Open pombredanne opened 2 days ago

pombredanne commented 2 days ago

see:

https://github.com/rogerbinns/jia-mini-python/blob/7fb1698ff426a56acbdf1baee71e6290e605f4e4/doc/copyright.rst#L6
https://github.com/rogerbinns/apsw/blob/e3e45491027f14a2ea53c68bf01bf48e7a855052/doc/copyright.rst#L26
https://github.com/rogerbinns/apsw/blob/e3e45491027f14a2ea53c68bf01bf48e7a855052/LICENSE

AyanSinhaMahapatra commented 19 hours ago

We have https://scancode-licensedb.aboutcode.org/any-osi.html for this which might be useful

DennisClark commented 19 hours ago

so I think it makes sense that detections of the cases mentioned by @pombredanne should point to the any-osi license mentioned by @AyanSinhaMahapatra and that would resolve this issue.