Gitea: Display a License tab

[give-me-my-toblerone]

Like GitHub does. It shows a tab with the project license, so it's immediate to see what it is

[tboerger]

I don't understand what you want to request, please explain it properly.

[thibaultmeyer]

Maybe he speak about this?

[tboerger]

Ah, that makes more sense.

[lunny]

But for a self-hosted server, I seems there is no requirement.

[thibaultmeyer]

we are no forced to do something like github who scan repo to determine license. maybe just a selectbox field on repo settings page is enough ?

[tboerger]

This is something we can integrate at some point, so I moved it to a future milestone

[bkcsoft]

Using something like go-license[1] it'd be fairly simple to implement, just remember to _cache_ the result until the license-file changes (just add another column in the repo-table)

[1] https://github.com/ryanuber/go-license

[thibaultmeyer]

yes we could add a new field on repo model and update it at each push / merge event.

[bkcsoft]

@0xbaadf00d preferably only update when LICENSE* have been updated ;)

[bamboleeeero-bamboleeeero]

@bkcsoft that may not be always he case... some projects use COPYING for instance

[bamboleeeero-bamboleeeero]

LICENSE files my also not necessarily contain a single license, but a list of licenses for various components

[bkcsoft]

@bamboleeeero-bamboleeeero

some projects use COPYING for instance

How does GitHub handle this?

but a list of licenses for various components

Same here. How does others handle that?

As I see it, it's a new feature, do the smallest amount of work first then extend on that in a later version :)

[nogweii]

Github handles this through the gem licensee.

some projects use COPYING for instance

Github scans the root of a project, and matches the files in that directory against a series of regular expressions with scores. High enough and it's treated as a file that likely contains the license text.

but a list of licenses for various components

The first license that Licensee detects and knows about is used. A better solution is being discussed at https://github.com/benbalter/licensee/issues/57

[gsantner]

I can agree to @bamboleeeero-bamboleeeero - the filename is not always LICENSE. E.g. LICENSE.txt, LICENSE.md, COPYING are often used too

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[lunny]

ref. https://github.com/src-d/go-license-detector

[hendrikbl]

@lunny Any plans to implement this? The library looks promising.

[lafriks]

Library moved to https://github.com/go-enry/go-license-detector