Re: SPDX - How to handle MIT and BSD

[Bob Mauchin]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2022, 12:24 Miro Hrončok <mhroncok(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:

>  On 14. 11. 22 20:53, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
>  > 1) You can use https://github.com/spdx/spdx-license-diff and use it to
>  identify
>  > your license. This is a Chrome and Firefox plugin and allows you to
>  select the
>  > text; and in the context menu, you can choose to identify the license.
>  It will
>  > print, e.g., that it matches 60% of the MIT-feh license and highlight
>  the
>  > difference. Or...
>
>  Do we have a command line tool for this? Does licensecheck support SPDX
>  identifiers?
>
>  (I find the use of browser extension for this very weird. I have the
>  LICENSE
>  file unpackaged with the sources on my machine, I am not browsing it on
>  the web.)
>
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I package askalono-cli which can detect license texts and outputs an SPDX
identifier:  https://github.com/jpeddicord/askalono

We use it in go2rpm.

Best regards,

Robert-André

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