seperate property for url in json output
yassinjabri opened this issue · comments
url sould be a seperate property and value in json output
In an ideal world there would be no URL ever output, that's just a hangover from packages that haven't been migrated across (and can't be determined by looking at the license itself).
Is there a specific scenario that you're wanting to use this for?
Yes it is. I neet to create a list of all used packages with package name, version, license url and license type. This list i have to generate from time to time for deocumentation requirementts. A separate url property ist helpfull to generate an html page for example.
Given that only a subset of the packages will have URL's, will that not be a problem for you? Or are you only concerned about linking to non-OSI licenses, and OSI licenses like MIT or Apache 2.0 are fine to inline the SPDX?
In my opinion it is better to seperate package name and url. The result would be a clean package name and url to the license file. If there is a need to combine them, you always have the option to generate an individual output from the json output. I think its more flexible.
Part of the 1.3.0 release.