license-checker-tool: handle word wraps / ignore `-\n`
Open
Nobody has claimed this yet.
matching
- Dominant language
- Java
- Stars
- 71
- Forks
- 44
- Avg merge
- 12h 54m
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 7
Description
example license from https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxres/-/blob/460d11002d20683420fdb0d09ab3c7a0cccd74f4/COPYING
Copyright (c) 2002 XFree86 Inc
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is fur-
nished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FIT-
NESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
XFREE86 PROJECT BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER
IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CON-
NECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
Except as contained in this notice, the name of the XFree86 Project shall not
be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other deal-
ings in this Software without prior written authorization from the XFree86
Project.
it includes several word wraps which split words between lines with -
i suggest the license checker tool should recognize this to better match licenses like that
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
Start by locating the license-checker-tool and its matching tests, then reproduce the provided XFree86 license example with its hyphenated word wraps. Done means wrapped words such as “fur-nished” and “FIT-NESS” are normalized so the license checker recognizes the license.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100