Yes. This is my exact concern. This has two impacts, one is the non-discoverability and the other is a possibility of misapprehension that the packages are in fact non- licensed which is an actual harm to the packages. The irony is that we have gone to excessive lengths to ensure that all our original sources have their licenses represented as well.
On Thu, 2019-11-14 at 10:56 +0100, Jan Mercl wrote: > On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 5:55 AM Dan Kortschak <d...@kortschak.io> > wrote: > > > It looks like license detection needs work. > > > > See https://pkg.go.dev/gonum.org/v1/gonum?tab=overview and note it > > has > > a BSD 3 clause, as shown by GitHub's assessment (just above the > > "Clone > > or download" button) at https://github.com/gonum/gonum and the > > LICENSE > > file that it links to. > > Moreover, such packages seem to be, as a side effect, non- > discoverable > because their README and documentation are not indexed (nor > displayed). For example, searching for `pure go SQL database' has > zero > results. > > I don't care about automatic license recognizing, even though it's > admittedly a useful information for the site user. But I don't > understand why projects with unrecognized LICENSE file contents don't > show the README and the documentation. > > I'll better leave the fact of hiding even the LICENSE file per se > from > the user with the message `“Licenses” hidden due to license > restrictions.` without comment because I guess it's just a legal > issue > I don't understand. > > Any yes, all my packages that I tried are victims to the above > issues. > Here's an example of a recognized LICENSE vs an unrecognized one: > > jnml@e5-1650:~/src/modernc.org/mathutil> diff -u ~/goroot/LICENSE > LICENSE > --- /home/jnml/goroot/LICENSE 2019-09-10 14:24:54.469859557 +0200 > +++ LICENSE 2019-09-10 14:36:43.347068286 +0200 > @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ > -Copyright (c) 2009 The Go Authors. All rights reserved. > +Copyright (c) 2014 The mathutil Authors. All rights reserved. > > Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without > modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions > are > @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ > copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following > disclaimer > in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the > distribution. > - * Neither the name of Google Inc. nor the names of its > + * Neither the names of the authors nor the names of the > contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from > this software without specific prior written permission. > > jnml@e5-1650:~/src/modernc.org/mathutil> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/7b8e08bb8429ac6b245458b33df597b783e0180b.camel%40kortschak.io.
