conda_recipe_manager.licenses.spdx_utils

Description:

Provides a class that reads in the SPDX licensing database file to support SPDX utilities.

SPDX Data Source (freely available for use):

• https://github.com/spdx/license-list-data/blob/main/json/licenses.json

Classes

SpdxUtils()

Class that provides SPDX tooling from the SPDX license database file.

class conda_recipe_manager.licenses.spdx_utils.SpdxUtils

Bases: object

Class that provides SPDX tooling from the SPDX license database file.

find_closest_license_match(license_field: str) → str | None

Given a license string from a recipe file (from /about/license), return the most likely ID in the SPDX database by string approximation.

TODO Future: We might want to evaluate these tools for future use as they likely do a better job at matching licenses to the SPDX standard. * https://github.com/spdx/spdx-license-matcher * https://github.com/nexB/license-expression

Parameters:

license_field -- License string provided by the recipe to match

Returns:

The closest matching SPDX identifier, if found