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spdx / LicenseListPublisher

Tool that generates license data found in the license-list-data repository from the license-list-XML source
Apache License 2.0
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Inconsistent URLs for licenses vs exceptions #170

Closed DennisClark closed 11 months ago

DennisClark commented 1 year ago

Something appears to have changed in the SPDX license list web pages. For example, https://spdx.org/licenses/OpenJDK-assembly-exception-1.0.html is valid but https://spdx.org/licenses/OpenJDK-assembly-exception-1.0 is no longer valid and one gets a 404 from it. This appears to be a problem for all exceptions.

Oddly enough, the problem is only with exceptions. https://spdx.org/licenses/Apache-2.0 is valid AND https://spdx.org/licenses/Apache-2.0.html is valid.

I am reasonably sure that the .html suffix was previously not required for exceptions but I am not able to specify a date when that stopped working. Please investigate.

goneall commented 1 year ago

I looked at the generated files and indeed the publisher is not generating the HTML without the ".html" extension.

The issue is in the SpdxWebsiteFormatWriter.java file.

It doesn't look like it was changed for over 2 years, so if it did work previously, it was probably 2 or more years ago.

I did create a pull which fixes the issue.

@DennisClark - do you think this is important enough to spin create a new release before the next license list update?

DennisClark commented 1 year ago

@goneall I will let you decide how important it is, and thanks very much for addressing it!