Function

AppStream-1.0AppStreamspdx_license_tokenizeSince 0.9.8

  • Tokenizes the SPDX license string (or any simarly formatted string) into parts. Any license parts of the string e.g. "LGPL-2.0+" are prefexed with "@", the conjunctive replaced with "&", the disjunctive replaced with "|" and the WITH operator for license exceptions replaced with "^". Brackets are added as indervidual tokens and other strings are appended into single tokens where possible.

    Parameters

    • license: string

      a license string, e.g. "LGPLv2+ and (QPL or GPLv2) and MIT"

    Returns string[]

    array of strings, or null for invalid

    0.9.8