copr / license-validate

#28 Add json-c, xterm and expat to ignored packages
Closed by msuchy. Opened by tkorbar.
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These packages did not require any action to be converted
into SPDX format

Are you sure? I briefly checked the first file in xterm - 256colres.pl and it seems to be licensed under https://spdx.org/licenses/X11-distribute-modifications-variant.html
I have seen there MIT-open-group and CC-BY too.

I recommend unpacking the tarball and running:

# pip install scancode-toolkit
# ~/.local/bin/scancode --license --html /tmp/spdx.html  . && firefox /tmp/spdx.html
Edited by msuchy

Ugh i see, i've been using licensecheck tool and it recognized the license as MIT, because MIT is a substring of X11 License Distribution Modification Variant. So scancode is the recommended tool?

scancode-toolkit localy. Or fossology as a service, but we do not have it in our infra and https://www.fossology.org/get-started/ cleans the data every night.
The problem is that all the tooling is early days and each of them has some issues :(

I will close this PR, if any of this 3 packages are indeed MIT please submit new PR. But I am sure that xterm is not MIT (not only).

Pull-Request has been closed by msuchy

This PR has been migrated to GitHub as a placeholder issue:
https://github.com/fedora-copr/license-validate/issues/28
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