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

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Xavier (2020-11-03 18:35:48)
> 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

I don't mean how to codify.

I just mean what could the output from licensecheck look like.


 - Jonas

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