scancode-licensedb
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A free and open database of all the licenses, in particular all the open source software licenses
**Background** On [https://ubuntu.com/legal/open-source-licences?release=xenial](https://ubuntu.com/legal/open-source-licences?release=xenial) you will find dbus, and if looking closer we can see ``` dbus 1.10.6-1ubuntu3.6 main AFL-2.1,AFL-2.1,,BSD-3-clause,BSD-3-clause-generic,Expat,g10-permissive,GPL-2+,Tcl-BSDish ``` Looking (even) closer at the "g10-permissive" license on [https://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/d/dbus/dbus_1.10.6-1ubuntu3.6/copyright](https://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/d/dbus/dbus_1.10.6-1ubuntu3.6/copyright) we...
Hello Scancode Team, I'm aware of #16 and #30, but since those issues are only related, I'm opening another one with a simpler request. When searching for the [JSON](https://spdx.org/licenses/JSON.html) License,...
It should complete normally and print a success message instead and these error should NOT be an error: https://github.com/nexB/scancode-licensedb/actions/runs/6669530146/job/18127506330 ``` 2023-10-27T16:04:25.4888565Z Rebuilding the license index... 2023-10-27T16:06:11.1360592Z Done. 2023-10-27T16:06:13.2409377Z Traceback (most...
It would be great if text versions of the licenses were served as `text/plain`. Currently, the Content-Type header for this format is set to `application/octet-stream`in the response.
Otherwise we need to further click to navigate back home and this is annoying.
It would be nice to have the long license name in the list, please add a column for it.
It would nice to have a changelog web page that would list recent changes as in added/deprecated/refined licenses (or just additions since we do not remove?)
We need a filtering feature for the license list view, this could help looking up licenses for a particular category. Alternatively it could also help if the search supported searching...
Presently we are updating the licenseDB on every new commit in scancode-toolkit develop, but this can be improved with only updating when there are actual license changes, so that there...