Should license information be available for NONE and NOASSERTION ?
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Description
In SPDX 3.0.2, the IndividualLicensingInfo values NONE and NOASSERTION are becoming closer to behaving like any other license id, but currently the following code does not return any results:
org.spdx.library.ListedLicenses.getListedLicenses().getListedLicenseById("NONE");
org.spdx.library.ListedLicenses.getListedLicenses().getListedLicenseById("NOASSERTION");
The question is: should it be possible to get the metadata (name, description, etc.) for these "identifiers", and if so how? They're not listed licenses, so perhaps they should be looked up via different methods and/or classes, for example?
Note: I have no specific need for this functionality myself; it was just something I noticed in passing, as I worked on implementing some of the changes in SPDX v3.0.2.
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Research direction
Start by reading org.spdx.library.ListedLicenses and its getListedLicenseById method, then compare the SPDX 3.0.2 IndividualLicensingInfo definition for NONE and NOASSERTION. Done means establishing whether these identifiers should expose metadata and identifying the appropriate API or class, with behavior covered by tests.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- devtools
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100