Anything we can do to improve the usability and detection of licenses is a big win in my book. Even the best intentioned people have a hard time consistently doing the right thing -- whether that's attributing the right copyright owner, reproducing the right copyright message, or otherwise abiding by the license, it can be hard to be 100% correct.
It would be nice if this was more programmatic. If licenses had an identifying string they carried so they could be clearly and consistently identified, and machine parseable metadata. If we make it easy to build automation around license files, we make it easy to do the right thing -- maybe even easier than doing the wrong thing.
I think about something like Webpack. If Webpack could just traverse your project structure and parse all your dependencies license files and generate the proper attributions, that would be amazing.
It would be nice if this was more programmatic. If licenses had an identifying string they carried so they could be clearly and consistently identified, and machine parseable metadata. If we make it easy to build automation around license files, we make it easy to do the right thing -- maybe even easier than doing the wrong thing.
I think about something like Webpack. If Webpack could just traverse your project structure and parse all your dependencies license files and generate the proper attributions, that would be amazing.