> I thought the license name was a free text field.
I was partly mistaken. If you select "Other" you are indeed given a text
field in which to enter a different license. However, as you say, most free
addons are probably under one of the seven licenses listed, and anyone using
one of these licenses would be unlikely to bother clicking "Other" and typing
out the license in a different format. As a result, most free addons have a
machine-readable license statement.
It's true that the yes/no dialog in free-addons would not be needed to
automatically reject all licenses other than those seven, but it only takes
seven yes's to accept them all, at which point your yes/no dialog works well
for dealing with the handful of other free licenses.
Mozilla requires developers who select "Other" to upload the text of their
license, which is available at
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/[name of addon]/license
so I tried out in addition to your y/n options adding a 'v' option to view
the text of the license and an 'o' option to add only the current addon
without accepting other addons with the same license statement. This might
help with situations like HTTPS Everywhere. The text for HTTPS Everywhere is
HTTPS Everywhere:
Copyright © 2010-2018 Electronic Frontier Foundation and others
Licensed GPL v2+
HTTPS Everywhere Rulesets (src/chrome/content/rules):
To the extent copyright applies to the rulesets, they can be used according
to
GPL v2 or later.
Issue Format Bot (utils/issue-format-bot/*):
Copyright © 2017 AJ Jordan, AGPLv3+
The build system incorporates code from Python 3.6
Copyright © 2001-2018 Python Software Foundation; All Rights Reserved
from which one can determine that the addon is free and add HTTPS Everywhere
without accepting "Multiple" for other addons.
I'm having a little with your script and the MIT/X11 License. I am prompted
to accept or reject "MIT\u002FX11 License", and accepting it does add it to
pop-n-free/accept, but at the next X11 addon it appears not to find it in the
list of accepted licenses. "MIT\u002FX11 License" gets added to pop-n-free an
additional time each time I accept it and is never recognized as having
already been accepted. It seems like it might have something to do with '/'?
Is it a locale thing?
