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Let license detection follow reuse.software conventions #535

Open bzg opened 1 month ago

bzg commented 1 month ago

https://reuse.software is an initiative to help standardizing the way license files appear in a repository.

For example, they encourage using a LICENSES directory containing all necessary licenses. See their documentation for more.

Some projects start using these conventions, as they are more rigorous than just adding a LICENSE file at the root of the repo.

Could ecosyste.ms parse licensing information also understanding reuse.software conventions?

andrew commented 1 month ago

Related to https://github.com/ecosyste-ms/roadmap/issues/12, I'm planning on upgrading the license detection using scancode to find both license and copyright information for both packages and repositories, which should satisfy reuse.software conventions.

bzg commented 1 month ago

Great, thanks!