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Business Source License: report the 'change license'

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Description

## Short Description

The Business Source License has a so called "change license". It might be useful to report this, as it could be important information.

Of course, the business source license is a crappy license that should be avoided at all costs, but the code is being used.

## Possible Labels

- new feature

## Select Category

- [X] Enhancement
- [ ] Add License/Copyright
- [X] Scan Feature
- [ ] Packaging
- [ ] Documentation
- [ ] Expand Support
- [ ] Other

## **Possible Solution/Implementation Details**

The business source license examples I have seen so far are very structured, so parsing it should not be too difficult, although there is variation (some use SDPX, others don't).

## **Example/Links if Any**

## **Can you help with this Feature**

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

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