v8.8.3

Properly remove BSD titles when normalizing licenses (#174)

v8.8.2

• Normalize titles with parenthesis and multiple copyright lines #171
• Anchor attribution detection to the first normalized line #170

v8.8.1

Updated vendored licenses

v8.8.0

• New: Add dist.ini file matcher for Perl modules using Dist::Zilla (#157, props @pablrod)
• Improved: Only consider license content until 'END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS' (#167, props @talisein)
• Improved: Anchor title and copyright normalization to the start of the license file (#163)
• Improved: Various documentation improvements
• Fixed: Avoid detecting CC-NC and CC-ND as false positives for CC-BY and CC-BY-SA (#168, props @mlinksva)
• Test: Drop ActiveSupport test dependency (#152)
• Test: Add Ruby 2.3 and 2.4 to the test matrix (#151, props @connorshea)

v8.7.0

• New: Expose license rules as Licensee::Rule (#148)
• New: Recognize underlined license headers in READMEs (#138, props @pchaigno)
• Fixed: Running licensee against a single file on Windows (#144, props @sschuberth)

v8.6.1

Update vendored licenses.

v8.6.0

• New: Add CRAN DESCRIPTION file detection (#129, props @jimhester)
• New: Add support for .mdown README extension (#135, props @pchaigno)
• Improved: Better filename scoring, props @waldyrious (#110)
• Improved: Updated documentation (#124, #130)
• Improved: Expanded command-line output (#134)
• Improved: Update vendored licenses
• Development: Break license regex into constants (#125)
• Development: Move tests to RSpec (#136)

v8.5.0

• Strip --- and === horizontal rules prior to license comparison
• Output the three most similar licenses during command line invocation when no license is detected
• Better content normalization tests

v8.4.0

Improvements

• Special case COPYING.lesser to handle LGPL implementation instructions (#113)
• Stricter DiceMatcher to avoid false positives when analyzing concatenated licenses (#112)
• The exact matcher now takes into account length, not just similarity of words
• The CopyrightMatcher is now flexible to support the ZLib license's copyright line, which beings with (c) not copyright
• Increase confidence threshold from 90% to 95%
• Based "max delta" on license length, not the length of the file to be tested, which may be variable
• Update vendored licenses

Development improvements

• Test the PackageMatcher
• Add a test for the ContentHelper
• Organize the tests into namespaced folders

v8.3.1

License#meta now always returns a hash (with front matter defaults), rather than returning nil for pseudo licenses (#107).