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 -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ * Sponsorship: https://ko-fi.com/drjones [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
