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Two ESA-PL licenses are miscategorized

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Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Clearly specified
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Domain
databases

Research direction

Start by locating the ScanCode LicenseDB entries for ESA-PL-strong-copyleft-2.4 and ESA-PL-weak-copyleft-2.4, then compare their current category values with the issue’s suggested values. Update the two categories to “Copyleft” and “Copyleft limited”; done when both entries show those classifications.

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Description

ScanCode LicenseDB - ESA-PL lists 3 licenses

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The last two have copyleft in the name, but are categorized as Permissive. A more appropriate categorization would be:

"ESA-PL-strong-copyleft-2.4": "Copyleft",
"ESA-PL-weak-copyleft-2.4":   "Copyleft limited",
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