From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Craven Subject: Re: License auditing Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 20:05:39 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20160803195511.3f55fc92@scratchpost.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36689) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bV0YF-0000Xm-8a for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Aug 2016 14:05:56 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bV0YB-0007rp-2r for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Aug 2016 14:05:54 -0400 Received: from mail-yw0-x234.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4002:c05::234]:33962) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bV0Y9-0007rK-S1 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Aug 2016 14:05:51 -0400 Received: by mail-yw0-x234.google.com with SMTP id z8so235187769ywa.1 for ; Wed, 03 Aug 2016 11:05:48 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20160803195511.3f55fc92@scratchpost.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Danny Milosavljevic Cc: guix-devel >> How can I tell the difference between a lgpl2.1 and lgpl2.1+ license? >"or later" Yes, I get that, but does it explicitly say the words "or latter" in the license text? What about when there are lgpl2, lgpl2.1 and lgpl3 license files in the repo? Is that (list lgpl2.0 lgpl2.1 lgpl3) or lgpl2.0+? > I could do that program in maybe 2 hours and find and extract all the > official license texts in a few more hours. But does such a thing already > exist? [Seems like something obvious to have and I'm writing many other > things already.] I only found this, which only detects 3 license types. https://github.com/tantalor/detect-license