Re: Debian Salsa and groff license

[Russ Allbery]

Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> writes:

> Yes.  I don't know how to fix this; as far as I'm aware it's not within
> the power of project owners to set this manually (much though that seems
> completely unreasonable).

> It might be worth filing a support issue with salsa.debian.org's admins
> to see whether there's some piece of the licence detection machinery
> that they can kick.

I believe GitLab uses this thing to automatically determine the license of
a project:

    https://github.com/licensee/licensee

Looking at the source code, I think it's giving precedence to LICENSES
over COPYING and picking up the copy of the MIT license in that file.

Automatically detecting license information in any complicated scenario is
probably impossible, so it would be nice if GitLab had some way to
override the automatically-detected license.  If it does, I haven't been
able to find it.

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Russ Allbery (eagle@eyrie.org)             <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>