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

[Dom Rodriguez]

Hi Jonas,

On 13.03.2025 11:01, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>Hi Dom,
>
>Quoting Dom Rodriguez (2025-03-13 01:18:03)
>> It would be useful for `licensecheck` to output SPDX-compliant license
>> identifiers, so that it can be used in SPDX/CycloneDX SBOMs.
>
>Do you mean like this?:
>
>```
>licensecheck --shortname-scheme=spdx *
>```

Perfect, I missed that in the docs.

However, I note that, for example, GPLv2 licenses are reported as
`GPL-2.0`, which is deprecated by the SPDX license list[0], which
should - probably - be addressed.

I can open a different bug report and close this one if that works for
the team. I'm running `licensecheck` v3.3.9.

[0]: https://spdx.org/licenses/

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

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