platformio / platformio/platformio-core
Implement license validation for project dependencies
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- Python
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Description
A project can depend on multiple 3rd party packages: libraries, frameworks, SDKs. To help companies avoid license risks, PlatformIO can analyze licenses of packages that are used for the build process and alert users if there is a conflict.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
The issue names no implementation files or tests. Start by reading the linked License Compatibility PDF and SPDX license-expression specification, then inspect how PlatformIO identifies packages used for a build; done means detecting license conflicts and alerting users.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- build-system, tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100