Automatically map RawLicenses obtained from Scancode data into NormalizedLicenses
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As a user I want Solicitor to map RawLicense data directly to NormalizedLicense objects if the RawLicense data is obtained from Scancode data. Data from scancode classifies licenses either
- by the corresponding SPDX license id OR
- by a
LicenseRef-scancode-XXXXX
identifier.
Mapping this to NormalizedLicenses currently requires explicit LicenseNameMapping or LicenseAssignment rules for the SPDX identifiers and LicenseRef-scancode-XXXXX
identifiers.
With the new feature an automatic mapping should be done (in case that the origin of license data (RawLicense.origin
) is scancode
and the ApplicationComponent.dataStatus
is any of the DA:
(data available) values.
The mapping should be done as follows:
- valid SPDX-IDs shall be mapped to type
OSS-SPDX
and the given SPDX ID - Licenses of form
LicenseRef-scancode-XXXX
shall be mapped to typeSCANCODE
and theLicenseRef-scancode-XXXX
- Licenses matching an "ignorelist" (optional, configurable) shall be mapped to type
IGNORE
andIgnore
. LicenseRef-scancode-XXXX
which contain the strings "unknown" or "proprietary" shall not be mapped automatically (configurable "blacklist" mechanism)
Any unmapped RawLicenses might then afterwards be mapped by the ususal approach of defining rules.