Show library license

[s-celles]

Hello,

Arduino libraries should display library license
Related issue arduino/Arduino#6646

Kind regards

[njh]

Is this dependant on it appearing in the Library Manager JSON?

Or are you asking me to do the license detection myself?

[s-celles]

My opinion is that it should be managed upstream ie in Arduino JSON http://downloads.arduino.cc/libraries/library_index.json

But if you are able to autodetect license it could help to fix upstream issue.

Unfortunately several problems are linked...

The more problematic being arduino/Arduino#7591

I opened this issue just to inform you about current situation...

[njh]

Added licence to each of the the library pages in 205d328.

Currently waiting for the site to rebuild.

[njh]

Had some problems rebuilding the site. I think I am going to have to re-write the way is stores the data/builds the pages.

If the license has been given in library.properties, it shows that. Otherwise it falls back the to GitHub detected license.

Example page:
https://www.arduinolibraries.info/libraries/arduino-json

License MIT

Is this what you had in mind?

[s-celles]

https://www.arduinolibraries.info/libraries/embedded-template-library license is not recognised.
https://github.com/ETLCPP/etl have a LICENSE file which shows it's MIT licensed.

[s-celles]

https://github.com/ETLCPP/etl/search?q=LICENSE

[njh]

This ticket is about the rendering of the information, not the detection of licenses.

The ETLCPP license file isn't being detected by GitHub. I am not sure how the GitHub license detector works but it is probably due to customisations in the LICENSE file - it might be the links that have been added after the copyright line.

When a license is detected by GitHub, then it displays in the bar at the top of the project:

The only other change I am planning to make it adding the license to the Linked Data.

[njh]

license is now also appearing in the JSON-LD:
https://www.arduinolibraries.info/libraries/arduino-json.json

[s-celles]

Thanks @njh