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spdx / LicenseListPublisher

Tool that generates license data found in the license-list-data repository from the license-list-XML source
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license text inconsistency #140

Closed OlshaMB closed 2 years ago

OlshaMB commented 2 years ago

I am writing a cli to install license in the current dir in rust. And I have problem using https://github.com/spdx/license-list-data because in the folder /text there are two formats:

  1. Copyright (C) YEAR by AUTHOR EMAIL in 0BSD.txt
  2. Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders> in MIT.txt
  3. And maybe there is another one, I haven't checked them all And I need consistency to be able to format/replace with actual year and author.

P. S. And also saw /template dir but there I need to parse some custom format, but I am not ready to write parser for that. Also I won't use xml format

goneall commented 2 years ago

@OlshaMB The files in the /text folder are verbatim license text without any formatting. I don't know of any standard way of marking the year within the copyright across all licenses. The format in the /template folder only specifies which text is optional for license matching purposes - so it wouldn't help (even if you wanted to write a parser). The license-list-XML format does have tags for title and copyright text, but does not have a tag specific to the date.

goneall commented 2 years ago

I'm going to close this issue as it doesn't apply to this library.