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

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Xavier (2020-11-03 20:28:02)
> 
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> Le 3 novembre 2020 19:50:52 GMT+01:00, Jonas Smedegaard <jonas at jones.dk> a écrit :
> >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?

> For me, we can just say that this file is covered by license. This is 
> the same case as "License" file (whole project), isn't it?

Ah ok, so this issue is not that licensecheck should understand 
project-wide licensing, but simply that licensecheck should recognize 
JSON format of nodejs "package.json" and to list _that_ file as having 
the license.

Makes sense.

 - Jonas

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