feat: Multiple licenses from CycloneDX files preserved by parser #42
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Many packages are subject to multiple licenses, e.g. Debian OS packages, and other long-lived packages. To analyse the license situation this information is important. Just using the first license in the list often yields quite wrong results, such as only showing a documentation license instead of a GPL license.
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Thanks @georgkoester. I was aware that the handling of multiple licences needed some attention but with the support for SPDX licence expressions now supported, I think this will be become the preferred approach of specifying multiple licences. I will merge the pull request but will raise a new issue to make the changes to both the SPDX and CycloneDX generators to handle multiple licences. |
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Many packages are subject to multiple licenses, e.g. Debian OS packages, and other long-lived packages.
To analyse the license situation this information is important. Just using the first license in the list often yields quite wrong results, such as only showing a documentation license instead of a GPL license.