Bug#973702: licensecheck should read "license" field from package.json files

[Xavier]

Le 03/11/2020 à 18:30, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit :
> Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2020-11-03 17:19:10)
>> Quoting Xavier Guimard (2020-11-03 17:07:02)
>>> when launching licensecheck in a nodejs module, I'd like to see 
>>> licensecheck reveals which license is used in package.json
>>
>> Licensecheck currently operates on files.
>>
>> package.json contains a field to state license for a _project_ which 
>> is something different.
>>
>> How would you expect licensecheck would handle that?
> 
> Maybe the above came across as needlessly agressive.
> 
> Thanks for reporting this.  Reporting it is appreciated on its own - you 
> need not "defend" this issue.
> 
> I agree that it would be nice if licensecheck could recognize copyright 
> and licensing information in all the many forms they are hinted - 
> including project-wide hints.
> 
> What I meant to ask is if you have some ideas how licensecheck could 
> sensibly report such non-file-specific hints?

Hi,

thanks for taking care of this and licensecheck! I never take a look at
how licensecheck works, so no idea for now, but I'll try to understand
licensecheck, then search how we could do this

Cheers,
Xavier