opam lint: Add support for the full SPDX license expression when checking the license#4768
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This PR requires #4770 to be merged first. I've updated the description for a summary of the changes. This is ready to review. Current checklist for merging this includes:
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The current opam release cannot handle full SPDX license parsing. Work around it for now by specifying licenses in a list. See ocaml/opam#4768 for more info.
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As opam<2.2.0 doesn't support PSF-2.0 license and only 2.1.5 is released as non-alpha at the time of writing. Per ocaml/opam#4768
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Fixes #4598 and #4747
Implementation details at https://github.com/kit-ty-kate/spdx_licenses
Currently during linting, opam checks that the license field is a valid SPDX license. However:
The best one can do is to use the list format to say un implicit AND/OR (e.g.
license: ["MIT" "ISC"]) and simply ignore the warning when the license isn't supported.This PR fixes all of those issues by allowing the complete SPDX license syntax: https://spdx.github.io/spdx-spec/appendix-IV-SPDX-license-expressions/
The syntax supports:
LicenseRef-custom-name)Compared to the current state, apart from the new feature added, this changes:
WITHoperator is parsed. Currently opam parses it in a case-insensitive manner, but the SPDX standard requires it to be case-sensitive (see https://spdx.github.io/spdx-spec/appendix-IV-SPDX-license-expressions/#case-sensitivity). So licenses such asLGPL-2.1-or-later with OCaml-LGPL-linking-exceptionwill have to be renamedLGPL-2.1-or-later WITH OCaml-LGPL-linking-exceptionto fit the standard.