Bug#863954: allow skipping header and unknown license sections

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Hi Praveen,

Quoting Pirate Praveen (2017-06-02 10:54:09)
> npm2deb parses packages.json of nodejs modules to generate copyright 
> file currently. But it misses any copyright notices outside 
> package.json. It would be good to use licensecheck to update copyright 
> file generated by npm2deb. If licensecheck can parse package.json if 
> present to generate header and files section then we can just use 
> licensecheck alone to generate copyright file.

Thanks for the suggestion.

More generically, I believe (also from our brief conversation about this 
on irc) that your suggestion is for licensecheck to not only gather 
file-specific metadata from sourcecode (copyright holders, years, 
licenses) as done currently, but additionally to gather project-wide 
metadata (name, description, Homepage) from files like package.json (for 
npm-distributed projects).

Do I understand that correctly?

Interesting idea!


 - Jonas

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