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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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Create alternative or optional text for copyright text #48

Closed goneall closed 5 years ago

goneall commented 5 years ago

Text enclosed by the copyright element are treated as normal text requiring complete matches. It should be made either alternate or optional per matching guidelines section 2.1.3.

goneall commented 5 years ago

Code to be modified is near https://github.com/spdx/LicenseListPublisher/blob/518b9964fbe8b226c70d5aefe7e520a3a5b9186a/src/org/spdx/licensexml/LicenseXmlHelper.java#L145

goneall commented 5 years ago

This is related to https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/866#issuecomment-497983940 and https://github.com/fsfe/reuse-docs/issues/16

zvr commented 5 years ago

simply put: copyrightText should be treated the same as titleText for matching.

goneall commented 5 years ago

Resolved in PR #54