On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 12:17 PM Todd Zullinger <tmz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Neal Gompa wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 11:05 AM Todd Zullinger <tmz@xxxxxxxxx> 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. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
