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pmonks / lice-comb

A Clojure library for software license detection.
Apache License 2.0
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Support SCM license scanning if POM file includes SCM information but lacks licensing information #50

Open pmonks opened 3 months ago

pmonks commented 3 months ago

In the (vanishingly rare) case that a POM includes <scm><url> information, and is missing <licenses> information, it may be worth attempting to scan the SCM source repository for possible license information - either from metadata that repository might have, or by finding and matching probable license files (LICENSE, COPYING, etc.).

pmonks commented 3 months ago

This may also be possible for deps with "special" GitHub GAs (e.g. com.github.pmonks/lice-comb), whether they have a pom.xml file or not.