Document problematic licenses/operators

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hesa commented 9 months ago

Problematic names of licenses

MPL
EPL
GPL
LGPL
BSD License (BSD License)
BSD License (new BSD)
Apache Software License
OSI Approved :: Apache Software License
PSL (Python Software License)
PSL, PSF, PSFL, PSF License, PSF License Agreement, Python license, Python Software Foundation License
ASL
Public (is this "Public-Domain"?)

hesa commented 9 months ago

If detected, should a warning/explanation text be outputted to the user?

E.g. "MPL can be interpreted as either either MPL-1.1 or MPL-2.0. The information MPL is not enough to determine which of these is intended"

hesa commented 6 months ago

This is already implemented using ambiguities