Bug#1102363: licensecheck: source formats: support excluding formats e.g. to only check for SPDX fields

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Christian Buhtz (2025-04-08 10:59:33)
> if covering/parsing SPDX meta data is implemented (#960665) please make sure to
> ignore all other licenses strings.
> 
> Let me provide you some real world problem where this would be important and
> also save resources of Debian package maintainers.
> 
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=960665
> 
> The "problem" here is that the whole project does offer SPDX meta data and
> "reuse lint" is green on all files, which means the project is SPDX conform.
> 
> But one file "serviceHelper.py" does have comments about the license
> history of that file. Some other licenses are named just of historical
> reasons. License checker does consider that strings, too. That is the problem.

Thanks for your bugreport.  I have reframed it as an option (rather than
a default goal):

support excluding formats e.g. to only check for SPDX fields

Do you agree that this covers the point of this issue?

Kind regards,

 - Jonas

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