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Support multiple languages for license detection #139

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pombredanne opened this issue Nov 30, 2015 · 2 comments
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Support multiple languages for license detection #139

pombredanne opened this issue Nov 30, 2015 · 2 comments
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pombredanne commented Nov 30, 2015 •
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Some licenses exist in multiple languages (e.g. CECILL) or have translations (e.g. Creative Commons, GPL) or may have been translated officially or not. While the strict legal equivalence of these translations is undefined, keeping all the language variants would be a great thing.
We should collect these and store these with the license data as text files, with some language code. For instance, we could store them as .LICENSE_FR_fr using locale-like codes or just a short language code (as in GE for German). We can assume only one primary canonical translation is available for a given language. If there are more, then we can use the rules instead for these extra translations.

Note that in the case where there is an obvious non equivalence legally speaking, then the translation should become a different license key altogether.

We should eventually also support returning the language of a detected license, meaning that for rules the language should be stored too (with a default to US English) when a rule is for a translation.

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Add license language tag #139
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@pombredanne pombredanne changed the title Add license translations and support multiple languages. Support multiple languages for license detection Feb 2, 2022
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Correct non-English license and rules
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Add new language attribute to a Rule, deafulting to English.

Use proper language tags and SPDX ids for licenses that were kept back.

Reference: #139
Signed-off-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
pombredanne added a commit that referenced this issue Feb 8, 2022
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Enable non-english licenses
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Add language attributes to rules

Move all non-english licenses to the main directory

Fix duplicates rules and licenses

Add new command line option to index with non-english licenses. This
is experimental.

Add check for long SPDX license keys

Reference: #139
Signed-off-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
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Support non-English license sync
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Reference: #139
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Support non-English licenses
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Improve in tests. Add a language tag there too.
Fix licenses with incorrect or missing metadata

Reference: #139
Signed-off-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
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Update ignorable for new licenses
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Reference: #139
Signed-off-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
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pombredanne commented Mar 27, 2024 •
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At this stage, I think this feature is mostly there. We should track some interesting sources of license translations and this should happen in further issues:

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All done. Closing

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