Grab SPDX license code and populate with license file if it doesn't exist

[RichardLitt]

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[wooorm]

Could you expand on this? Such as with an input (readme.md) / output (LICENSE) example?

[wooorm]

I’m especially interested in what you’d like now, and what you’d like somewhere in the far away future!

[RichardLitt]

Input: Repo with a README that has this at the bottom:

MIT © author

Or something similar, and no license file. Create the MIT license, cat it into a LICENSE file, and then link it in the Readme ([MIT](LICENSE) © Author).

[RichardLitt]

In the future, I'd like to fix all inconsistencies and make sure that the license included is the one specified. Take all of the manual work away from the users.

[wooorm]

From you second comment, what do you expect to happen now (not the future), if ISC © author is in the README?

[RichardLitt]

// pseudo-js

if (readme.contains('ISC © Name') && license.file !== true) {
     fs.writeSync({to: LICENSE.md, type: ISC_DOCUMENT, licensee: 'NAME'})
}

Basically. Make sense?

[wooorm]

Well that one makes sense, yes, but I was kinda looking for how long the list of supported (for now) licenses should be! Just supporting MIT (and/or ISC) is a very different task compared to supporting all licenses!

[RichardLitt]

Make it so that we can add to it. At the beginning: MIT, ISC, Apache should be enough.

[RichardLitt]

@wooorm This isn't a priority, issue, though. See the top issues in 'To Do' on https://github.com/mntnr/build-a-space/projects/1 for that.