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ryanuber / go-license

Software licensing standardization library for Golang
MIT License
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Detection based on Link to http://opensource.org/ in README.* #6

Open client9 opened 8 years ago

client9 commented 8 years ago

Hi guys,

I've found a few projects on github that basically drop in a link to opensource.org in their README* file to say, what license it is. http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT

Here's a sample: https://github.com/shurcooL/sanitized_anchor_name (used by the popular go-lang markdown processor: https://github.com/russross/blackfriday )

Thoughts on adding this to the pipeline? Im happy to do the work.

regards,

n

ryanuber commented 8 years ago

This makes sense, and we even use a similar thing to identify the Apache licenses here. I think basically we would just need to do an extra scan for the URL.

client9 commented 8 years ago

oh joy, I found both of these in various READMEs

continuing investigation...