License mapping (URL to License Type) breaks other packages

[wgnf]

Via --licenseurl-to-license-mappings one can provide a mapping from an URL to a license type.

I wanted to use this for a URLs where a License Type could not be determined. But this broke all other packages. I guess this is caused, because the other Packages' URLs do not mach with with the one provided in the mapping, hence it could not be determined.

I would prefer something like this:

• Check if the URL of the package to process matches any URL in the provided mapping
• If yes: Use the License Type from the Mapping
• If no: Determine the License Type the usual way

Any thoughts?

[wgnf]

Weird thing is tho, when I try to reproduce this while debugging everything works 🤔

[wgnf]

Oh. I see why this happens. In my debugging case I obviously used the --licenseurl-to-license-mappings Command-Line-Parameter.

What I did not know (because it isn't documented and not really obvious) that the Tool already uses a default-set of URL-Mappings under the hood (see here), which are overwritten by my manual Parameter which in turn led me to be confused why suddenly all the MS-Packages won't have a License-Type anymore.

[wgnf]

That leaves me with these questions:
Would it be desirable to merge the Mappings provided by --licenseurl-to-license-mappings with the already declared Default-Mappings (see above)?
Is there a use-case where a user would not want this to happen?