#1148631 ITP: golang-github-google-licensecheck -- Go library that classifies license files against known open source licenses

Package:
wnpp
Source:
wnpp
Submitter:
Juan Manuel Méndez Rey
Date:
2026-09-21 12:53:06 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1148631#5
Date:
2026-09-21 12:52:03 UTC
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* Package name    : golang-github-google-licensecheck
  Version         : 0.3.1
  Upstream Contact: https://github.com/google/licensecheck/issues
* URL             : https://github.com/google/licensecheck
* License         : BSD-3-clause
  Programming Lang: Go
  Description     : Go library that classifies license files against known open source licenses

 The licensecheck package scans source texts for known licenses and reports
 how closely they match. Its design goal is never to produce a false positive.
 It also recognises matches of known license URLs.
 .
 The scanner recognises nearly all the licenses gathered by the SPDX project
 along with a number of others, using pattern definitions written in an
 internal License Regular Expression (LRE) syntax.
 .
 This package is a build dependency of syft (ITP https://bugs.debian.org/1124819), which uses
 it as the engine behind its license detection catalogers.

I intend to maintain this package within the Debian Go Packaging Team.