Is there a way to allow licenses for specific packages?

[iliana]

For some licenses we prefer to restrict allowing them to specific packages. In cargo-deny v0.2 we did this with skip, along the lines of:

[[licenses.skip]]
name = "copyless"
licenses = ["MPL-2.0"]

I can't seem to find a way to do this in v0.4; clarifications seem to be for changing what the detected license is.

(I accidentally hit enter while typing the issue title, sorry for the initial content that was just the issue template)

[Jake-Shadle]

No, the licenses skip was removed because it was a really tedious to configure. I guess we haven't felt the need to do per crate licenses because I'm not sure what the meaningful distinction is between allowing a particular license for only one crate versus potentially any crate, except maybe in the case of a crate or set of crates that are dynamically rather than statically linked, since some licenses have exceptions for that.

We do have a couple of licenses that are used in only 1 or 2 crates, is the worry that by allowing the license just for those couple of cases that a future crate that also uses that license will slip through?

[iliana]

is the worry that by allowing the license just for those couple of cases that a future crate that also uses that license will slip through?

Precisely :)

It is indeed tedious to configure, but I tend to only use it for the exceptions to the usual rules.