pilosus / pip-license-checker

Check license types for third-party dependencies: permissive, copyleft, proprietory, etc.
https://blog.pilosus.org/posts/2021/09/07/pip-license-checker/
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Support legacy formats for absent package metadata #47

Closed pilosus closed 3 years ago

pilosus commented 3 years ago

Some packages lack license and/or classifiers fields. It seems that depending on the setuptools version, default values for missing [metadata]() fields may vary, so that it returned by PyPI API as:

Let's consider all these as equivalent non-defined licenses to fall back to github repo license check.