Bug#1100386: licensecheck should [optionally] output SPDX-compliant license identifiers.

[Dom Rodriguez]

Package: licensecheck
Version: 3.0.31-3

It would be useful for `licensecheck` to output SPDX-compliant license
identifiers, so that it can be used in SPDX/CycloneDX SBOMs.

We did experiment with using ScanCode, but it was quite slow in CI, and
`licensecheck` is rather speedy - perhaps this output mode could be
done in a Unix-style pipe from the [default] tabular output in a
pipeline processing mode?

Happy to do some experimenting with the above approach, but also keen
for other suggestions.

Best regards,
--
Dom Rodriguez (he/him)
Software Engineer

Codethink Ltd

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