Detection based on Link to http://opensource.org/ in README.*

[client9]

Hi guys,

I've found a few projects on github that basically drop in a link to opensource.org in their README* file to say, what license it is. http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT

Here's a sample: https://github.com/shurcooL/sanitized_anchor_name (used by the popular go-lang markdown processor: https://github.com/russross/blackfriday )

Thoughts on adding this to the pipeline? Im happy to do the work.

regards,

n

[ryanuber]

This makes sense, and we even use a similar thing to identify the Apache licenses here. I think basically we would just need to do an extra scan for the URL.

[client9]

oh joy, I found both of these in various READMEs

• http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
• http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php

continuing investigation...