Display a License tab

[give-me-my-toblerone]

Like GitHub does. It shows a tab with the project license, so it's immediate to see what it is

[tboerger]

I don't understand what you want to request, please explain it properly.

[thibaultmeyer]

Maybe he speak about this?

[tboerger]

Ah, that makes more sense.

[lunny]

But for a self-hosted server, I seems there is no requirement.

[thibaultmeyer]

we are no forced to do something like github who scan repo to determine license. maybe just a selectbox field on repo settings page is enough ?

[tboerger]

This is something we can integrate at some point, so I moved it to a future milestone

[bkcsoft]

Using something like go-license[1] it'd be fairly simple to implement, just remember to cache the result until the license-file changes (just add another column in the repo-table)

[1] https://github.com/ryanuber/go-license

[thibaultmeyer]

yes we could add a new field on repo model and update it at each push / merge event.

[bkcsoft]

@0xBAADF00D preferably only update when LICENSE* have been updated ;)

[bamboleeeero-bamboleeeero]

@bkcsoft that may not be always he case... some projects use COPYING for instance

[bamboleeeero-bamboleeeero]

LICENSE files my also not necessarily contain a single license, but a list of licenses for various components

[bkcsoft]

@bamboleeeero-bamboleeeero

some projects use COPYING for instance

How does GitHub handle this?

but a list of licenses for various components

Same here. How does others handle that?

As I see it, it's a new feature, do the smallest amount of work first then extend on that in a later version :)

[nogweii]

Github handles this through the gem licensee.

some projects use COPYING for instance

Github scans the root of a project, and matches the files in that directory against a series of regular expressions with scores. High enough and it's treated as a file that likely contains the license text.

but a list of licenses for various components

The first license that Licensee detects and knows about is used. A better solution is being discussed at licensee/licensee#57

[gsantner]

I can agree to @bamboleeeero-bamboleeeero - the filename is not always LICENSE. E.g. LICENSE.txt, LICENSE.md, COPYING are often used too

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[lunny]

ref. https://github.com/src-d/go-license-detector

[hendrikbl]

@lunny Any plans to implement this? The library looks promising.

[lafriks]

Library moved to https://github.com/go-enry/go-license-detector

[mxmehl]

May I suggest to also support the more flexible REUSE standard when implementing this important feature?

License detection would become really easy, especially if multiple licenses are in use. All you have to do is fetching the file names from the LICENSES directory. For instance, check this.

The files names (without .txt) indicate the unique SPDX license identifiers, and save everyone from interpreting the often diverging text in files like LICENSE or COPYING.

[6543]

google did start developing a licence detector: https://github.com/google/licensecheck