licenseclassifier

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Where does list of licenses come from?

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Hi, I was playing with this code and to give one example, I found this license: https://github.com/google/licenseclassifier/blob/main/licenses/Facebook-2-Clause.txt It says in your source code ( https://github.com/google/licenseclassifier/blob/148b633b0534b8cf7a143e54cdae2b9229a78a82/license_type.go#L26 ) that: > The names...

purpleidea

Trying to vendor go-licenses, which uses this, fails because the license DB is not vendored.

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I see how this is trying to be very clever and find the license DB in its own source code path. This totally breaks down in the face of Go's...

thockin

The classifier uses utf8.AppendRune(), which was added in Go 1.18; make that explicit in go.mod.

skitt

Previously the `StringSet` `byExceptionOnlyType` was defined but not used. This change adds it to the function `LicenseType` to get the type string "by_exception_only" when applicable.

hg-hg

This is the correct format for the embed directives. It seems that `go build` will allow this format, but IDEs like intellij won't highlight this correctly, and things like [build.Import](https://cs.opensource.google/go/go/+/refs/tags/go1.21.3:src/go/build/build.go;l=553)...

Tatskaari

Can you give more details of how to run the application?

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Hi. Can you give more details on how to run the application? README.md seems too scarce on information. I tried **go run license_serializer.go**. It works fine. But **identify_license** can't find...

pironev

It does not satisfy the Open Source Definition because it does not allow modifications or derivations under the same terms as the original software.

rspier

Can you please add the instructions on how to install this package using `go install`?

avarf

embed licenses and use them instead of database, if no database provided

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jgimenez