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Supporting user-defined license references #1023

Closed lumaxis closed 8 months ago

lumaxis commented 8 months ago

Today, ClearlyDefined's tooling only supports licenses that are part of the standardized SPDX License List. If a package's license is not on that list and e.g. ScanCode outputs a user-defined license ref in the format of LicenseRef-*, ClearlyDefined's processing will result in NOASSERTION.

We could fairly trivially add support for this on the code-level I believe but I think it warrants a larger discussion to see if ClearlyDefined want to support licenses that are not on the SPDX License List.

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lumaxis commented 8 months ago

Looks like there has been a bit of previous discussion on this topic in #1008

elrayle commented 8 months ago

See also #1008 which has additional information. These issues should probably be combined as they are essentially dups.

elrayle commented 8 months ago

Closing as Dup of #1008. Copied description to a comment in that issue.