Bug#904518: Add support for SPDX-License-Identifier

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Control: clone -1 -2 -3 -4
Control: retitle -2 licensecheck: cover license Unlicense
Control: retitle -3 licensecheck: cover all SPDX licenses
Control: retitle -4 licensecheck: document covered licenses

Quoting Michael Biebl (2019-06-24 23:32:19)
> are the any news here?
> Judging from
> https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=SPDX-License-Identifier
> SPDX-License-Identifier usage seems to be quite significant already.

Licensecheck does not yet support SPDX-License-Identifier, no.

I agree that it is quite valuable, and it _will_ get implemented.

Quoting Dominique Dumont (2019-01-07 11:48:16)
> libtommath is now using SPDX-License-Identifier [1]
> and licensecheck extracts no useful information.

Even when implemented, there is still the issue of coverage: libtommath 
is licensed as Unlicense which is not yet known to Licensecheck, and 
Licensecheck does not yet track alien licenses.

Licenses covered can be seen with "man Regexp::Pattern::License" - 
probably useful to expose that information to licensecheck itself.

Sorry for the lack of response till now.

 - Jonas

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