SPDX 2.3: LicenseRefs should not be case insensitive
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Description
According to the spec license expressions case sensitivity section, SPDX license IDs should be treated as case insensitive while LicenseRef's should be considered case sensitive.
Currently, if 2 license refs are found that differ only in case, an error is generated.
This situation should be allowed.
For example:
{
"licenseId": "LicenseRef-BSD-3-clause-GENERIC",
"extractedText": "NOASSERTION",
"name": "BSD-3-clause-GENERIC"
},
[...]
{
"licenseId": "LicenseRef-BSD-3-clause-generic",
"extractedText": "NOASSERTION",
"name": "BSD-3-clause-generic"
},
should be allowed.
The error generated is Analysis exception processing SPDX file: Object URI ...#LicenseRef-BSD-3-clause-generic already exists.
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Research direction
No source file or test is named in the issue. Start by locating the code that reports duplicate Object URIs for LicenseRefs and the existing analysis tests; reproduce the case with two refs differing only by case, then confirm both are accepted while SPDX license IDs retain case-insensitive handling.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
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- Bug
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