license_file_exceptions.json

{
    "_comment1": "This file is used to allow specific files to be omitted from the license check process.",
    "_comment2": "Each PkgException entry is a {'PackageName' and 'IgnoredFilesRegexList'}",
    "_comment3": "The 'PackageName' is the name of the (sub)package to which the exception applies.",
    "_comment4": "The 'IgnoredFilesRegexList' is a list of regular expressions that match files to be omitted from the license check.",
    "_comment5": "The 'GlobalExceptionsRegexList' is a list of regular expressions that match all packages.",

    "PkgExceptions": [
        {
            "PackageName": "gcc",
            "IgnoredFilesRegexList": [
                "^/usr/share/man/man7/gpl\\.7\\.gz$"
            ]
        },
        {
            "PackageName": "libdb-docs",
            "IgnoredFilesRegexList": [
                "^/usr/share/doc/libdb-[0-9\\.]+/installation/build_unix_freebsd\\.html$",
                "^/usr/share/doc/libdb-[0-9\\.]+/license/license_db\\.html$"
            ]
        },
        {
            "PackageName": "perl-doc",
            "IgnoredFilesRegexList": [
                "^/usr/share/man/.*"
            ]
        },
        {
            "PackageName": "tar",
            "IgnoredFilesRegexList": [
                "^/usr/share/doc/tar-[0-9\\.]+/tar\\.html/GNU-Free-Documentation-License\\.html$"
            ]
        },
        {
            "PackageName": "apache-commons-net-javadoc",
            "IgnoredFilesRegexList": [
                "^/usr/share/javadoc/apache-commons-net/org/apache/commons/net/bsd/.*",
                "^/usr/share/javadoc/apache-commons-net/src-html/org/apache/commons/net/bsd/.*"
            ]
        },
        {
            "_comment1": "OpenSSL has multiple structs, constants and procedures that have the word 'NOTICE' in them, like 'NOTICEREF_free'.",
            "_comment2": "These man pages are for those items, not actual license notices.",
            "PackageName": "openssl-devel",
            "IgnoredFilesRegexList": [
                "^/usr/share/man/man3/.*NOTICE.*\\.3ossl\\.gz$"
            ]
        },
        {
            "_comment": "LICENSE.rst in fonts directory is for third-party fonts used in HTML documentation, not the main libvirt license.",
            "PackageName": "libvirt-docs",
            "IgnoredFilesRegexList": [
                "^/usr/share/doc/libvirt-docs/html/fonts/LICENSE\\.rst$"
            ]
        },
        {
            "_comment1": "SD_NOTICE is a logging-priority macro defined in <systemd/sd-daemon.h> (one of SD_EMERG..SD_DEBUG).",
            "_comment2": "The man page documents the API macro and is not an actual license/notice file.",
            "PackageName": "systemd-devel",
            "IgnoredFilesRegexList": [
                "^/usr/share/man/man3/SD_NOTICE\\.3\\.gz$"
            ]
        }
    ],
    "GlobalExceptionsRegexList": [
    ]
}