Github API and search by license: consider this for improved detection

[pombredanne]

See "Searching GitHub by license type" https://help.github.com/articles/licensing-a-repository/

These may be material for new license rules?

You can filter repositories based on their license or license family using the license qualifier and the exact license keyword:

License	License keyword
Academic Free License v3.0	afl-3.0
Apache license 2.0	apache-2.0
Artistic license 2.0	artistic-2.0
Boost Software License 1.0	bs1-1.0
BSD 2-clause "Simplified" license	bsd-2-clause
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" license	bsd-3-clause
BSD 3-clause Clear license	bsd-3-clause-clear
Creative Commons license family	cc
Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal	cc0-1.0
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0	cc-by-4.0
Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0	cc-by-sa-4.0
Do What The F*ck You Want To Public License	wtfpl
Educational Community License v2.0	ecl-2.0
Eclipse Public License 1.0	epl-1.0
European Union Public License 1.1	eupl-1.1
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0	agpl-3.0
GNU General Public License family	gpl
GNU General Public License v2.0	gpl-2.0
GNU General Public License v3.0	gpl-3.0
GNU Lesser General Public License family	lgpl
GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1	lgpl-2.1
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0	lgpl-3.0
ISC	isc
LaTeX Project Public License v1.3c	lppl-1.3c
Microsoft Public License	ms-pl
MIT	mit
Mozilla Public License 2.0	mpl-2.0
Open Software License 3.0	osl-3.0
PostgreSQL License	postgresql
SIL Open Font License 1.1	ofl-1.1
University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License	ncsa
The Unlicense	unlicense
zLib License	zlib

[sbs2001]

I would like to work on this. Can you provide some additional details about, what exactly needs to be done?

[pombredanne]

repaste from the giiter chat at: https://gitter.im/aboutcode-org/discuss?at=5da81c05809de9699f5148a9

the first thing is to understand how license detection works. You can browse the code under src/licensedcode or more simply check some doc https://github.com/nexB/scancode-toolkit/wiki/How-to:-Add-new-license-rules-for-enhanced-detection and examples of what we call license detection rules under src/licensedcode/data/rules

I think the first approach would be to craft tests for each of the license names and codes in #1283 .... and determine for each what is the scancode license key

[saif007s]

I am beginner in the issue can you please suggest me how to get started