Skip to content

RFC: Report all detected license data by expression #2416

Description

@pombredanne

Today we have a combo of reporting by license key and by license expression.
Since we detected license expressions, we should always report everything by license expression.
This would mean a significant output data structure change:

  • The licenses file attribute would go away.
  • Instead the detection details would be provided under the license_expressions
  • We should avoid to repeat each license details and instead introduce a top-level licenses codebase attribute that would list the detected license reference information (and could optionally include the standard license text)

Activity

Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment

Metadata

Metadata

Assignees

No one assigned

    Labels

    GUI and outputsRFCRequest for comment, from the maintainers, users and the larger aboutcode community.license scannew feature

    Type

    No type

    Projects

    No projects

      Milestone

      No milestone

      Relationships

      None yet

      Development

      No branches or pull requests

      Issue actions