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GPL with classpath exception
My project has a lot of files under the GPL+classpath exception type of license. These are currently being discovered as pure GPL. How can I make sure these files are detected for the license they are?
Hi ehuelsmann,
Licenses are detected using Ohcount, our open-source line counter.
If you want to try your hand at adding a new license detection rule, we'd be happy to accept the patch. The license name for this license is gpl_classpath.
If this is not something you want to tackle, I can get it done, but it will probably be a while before I have time to take a look at it.
Thanks,
Robin
Hi Robin,
Thanks for your reaction. I too will put it on my TODO list. I'm not much of a ruby hacker though. I saw the change probably impacts licenses.rb in the /lib/licenses subdirectory. When you say 'the name for this license is gplclasspath', do you mean that the indicator symbol to be used should be ':gplclasspath'?
Bye,
Erik.
Yes, that's what I mean. Good luck, and let me know if you need anything.
Ok, I finally got around to setting up Ruby on one of my development machines. I implemented a low-impact change. Now while I'm adding the tests, I find that - ofcourse - any file classified as gpl_classpath will also be identified as gpl. Should I change the patterns for gpl in order not to match gpl_classpath?