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| author |   Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> | 2020-04-07 13:34:12 -0700 |
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| committer |   Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> | 2020-05-06 16:27:35 +0200 |
| commit | 6f2153b78f73b2fba8148d511e361c9dfa1cad59 (patch) | |
| tree | 0897d74c57aa392c4e2da838cdcb235d2a76ec0c | |
| parent | general-concepts/licenses: Mention the SPDX list and its caveats. (diff) | |
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general-concepts/licenses: GitHub license API might be incomplete
Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/devmanual/pull/166
Signed-off-by: Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | general-concepts/licenses/text.xml | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/general-concepts/licenses/text.xml b/general-concepts/licenses/text.xml index 9e3bb6d..7f600c4 100644 --- a/general-concepts/licenses/text.xml +++ b/general-concepts/licenses/text.xml @@ -82,9 +82,12 @@ Some EULAs may also require the user to fetch distfiles manually, in which case <body> <warning> -Do not trust the license indicated by GitHub or other sites that use -automation to guess the license! The information presented may be -incomplete and/or incorrect. +Do not trust the license indicated by GitHub or other sites that use automation +to guess the license! The information presented may be incomplete and/or +incorrect. The +<uri link="https://developer.github.com/v3/licenses/#get-the-contents-of-a-repositorys-license"> +GitHub License API</uri> for example can only return a single license for a +given repository. </warning> <p> |