Jamin Collins

I'd be happy to check them, but I'm not sure what source(s) you consider to be the original. For instance, what is the original (or official source of the) **APL-1.0**?

The issue is present with each of the files listed in the referenced test file directory.

I believe the text files should be cleaned/purged of non-printing characters. I also believe that (like myself) others will use the text files as direct inputs/reference for other license based...

I found this issue because of differences between what different languages consider to be whitespace. Seems that not all languages consider non-breaking space to be part of the POSIX space...

> I essentially normalized the to sides of the text being compared before applying any regular expressions or token based matching algorithms. I'm doing a similar normalization here, and comparing...

> I'd be more interested to learn which environments do not consider this character as a space, since this is definitely a bug. Ruby's regex `\s+` does not match it...

Created a pull request that removes these characters: #1901

> First of all, this PR only changes the test texts, not the license texts. It was the test texts I was instructed to change. If you'd like other texts...

@zvr there are more than 6 licenses that have non-breaking spaces. I'm happy to revert the changes for the files that _should_ have the non-breaking space, such as the French...

I believe all French texts have been reverted.