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Consider collecting Yocto and OE license checksums
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Description
License file cecksums are routinely used in OpenEmbedded and Yocto to identify licenses. We could have a specific way to detect these explicitly in license detection.
See https://www.openembedded.org/wiki/Recipe_License_Fields#LIC_FILES_CHKSUM
See https://github.com/search?q="LIC_FILES_CHKSUM"&type=Code
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