On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 12:17 PM Todd Zullinger <t...@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Neal Gompa wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 11:05 AM Todd Zullinger <t...@pobox.com> wrote:
> >> Am I missing something obvious or does licensecheck not work
> >> as expected?  This is with licensecheck-3.3.0-2.fc36.noarch.
> >
> > licensecheck does not follow/use SPDX-License-Identifier at all. It
> > predates that scheme.
>
> Then it seems odd to recommend it when someone asks "Does
> licensecheck support SPDX identifiers?" I think.  :)
>
> The answer is closer to: "sort of, but not really in a way
> that helps Fedora maintainers do the SPDX license
> conversion."
>

It's very rare to see SPDX-License-Identifier in source code.
Licensecheck will attempt to evaluate source files to determine a
license for each file. This is because in Debian, the DEP-5
debian/copyright file needs per-file license declarations. The ability
to return SPDX short names instead of full names is a courtesy.




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