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• Updated internal machineary
• Separate --extras and --groups

• update the cli interface to remove some confusing functionality
• refactor the library / code qa improvements
• Allow for alias of classifier in setup.cfg, thanks https://github.com/ericwb: #106
• Add support for SPDX license expression metadata after PEP 639: #107
• Add use regex/glob pattern to ignore multiple packages, thanks https://github.com/JulianKimmig: #108
• Prioritise ['project'] table over ['tool.poetry'] in pyproject.toml: #104
• Add option to show only failing packages: #98

• Use uv to parse dependencies before falling back to the native resolver
• deprecate the native resolver as many 3rd party libs (uv/pip/poetry) have done better

• Add html output using markdown lib #77

• fix critical TypeError: can only join an iterable

• fix critical #75 where importlib.metadata.PackageMetadata.json does not exist in Python < 3.10

  py311: OK (7.55=setup[5.89]+cmd[1.66] seconds)
  py310: SKIP (0.02 seconds)
  py39: SKIP (0.02 seconds)
  py38: OK (6.23=setup[4.30]+cmd[1.94] seconds)
  congratulations :) (13.95 seconds)

• fix #74
• update tests (as env has changed, ideally we'd mock more than we do atm)
• linting fixes

• fix: use appdirs for storing the db for requests_cache

• Update Matrix for AGPL_3_PLUS

• code improvements
• fix issue where onlyLicenses logic caused licensecompat to be false when unspecified from the command line
• move cli() to cli.py
• add tests for the main entry point
• update deps

• code improvements
• users can now specify a license from the command line with --license #69

• update dependencies

• fix: crash when a namespace doesn't exist #65
• fix: add support for double quotes in extras #64, thanks https://github.com/arunkumarpandian

• Fix optional extras from dependencies being included by default. Thank you https://github.com/arunkumarpandian!
• Dynamically get version from package metadata. Thank you https://github.com/emesar
• Bump version of rich

• Add a new flag --skip-dependencies which will exclude from the processing a list of the current project dependencies. Suitable for private dependencies which are only available on a private registry and not on PyPi. Thank you https://github.com/Azraeht :)

• Fixed Bug: handle missing urls for a pypi package #57. Thank you https://github.com/Azraeht!

• Fixed Bug: #55

• Refactor and code enhancements
• Fixed Bug: fix behaviour of dependency discovery for 'extras', thank you https://github.com/TuriJ95!
• Fixed Bug: ignore-package not working, thank you https://github.com/mathiasbockwoldt !

• Fixed Bug: requirements:requirements.txt reading mode, thank you https://github.com/NicolaDonelli
• Fixed Bug: Permissive libraries are not compatible with closed licenses. Closes #49
• Fixed Bug: Unexpected warnings for ignored license. Closes #48
• New Feature: Support option ignore-licenses in pyproject.toml. Closes #46
• Performance enhancements
• Extended test suite

• New Feature: Improve error messages (#44)
• New Feature: Support Transitive Dependencies 1 layer deep (#42)
• Fixed Bug: Unexpected warnings for ignored license (#48)
• Fixed Bug: A compatible dual licensed library is shown as incompatible (#47)
• Fixed Bug: licensecheck gives IndexError: list index out of range (#41)
• Fixed Bug: Apache2 is shown as incompatible with LGPL3 (#40)

• Update format to output info and detected package license
• Bump dep versions

• Merge PR #39 (Fixes #38)

• Merge PR #33 (implements feature: Support for PEP631: Declaring dependencies in pyproject.toml enhancement)
• Fix crash if setup.cfg exists with no metadata section (#34)

• Fix: #26
• Fix python 3.8 compatibility, thanks https://github.com/NicolaDonelli !

• Fix: use constant JOINS (";; ") in place of hardcoded ", " string to avoid splitting single license with commas
• Fix: Add GPL_X for GPL without a defined version
• Minor refactoring eg renaming functions
• Make namever consistent
• Add regression tests

• Combined PackageCompat and PackageInfo to a @dataclass of PackageInfo
• get_deps.py and packageinfo.py use sets in-place of lists. NOTE: list(depsWithLicenses) is passed to formatter.py (which expects lists of PackageInfo)

• Add support for setup.cfg #21 (thank you https://github.com/NicolaDonelli for the code :))
• Use rich for table rendering #20

• More detailed warnings per #19
• Add check using spdx identifiers

• Remove metprint
• Move docs
• Update precommit

• Fix crash when calculating module size
• Fix crash when module name was in different case to the requirement

• Hopefully fix #14 for real this time
• Update deps
• Remove pip
• Replace tomlkit with tomli

• Fix #18

• Compatible with pip 21.3
• Code quality improvements

• Add -u poetry:dev to command-line to include dev packages (excluded by default) per #16
• Add support for proprietary license per #15
• Raise RuntimeError if missing license and classifier #14
• Quality improvements to license_matrix.py
• Add additional examples to readme
• Support pre-commit-hooks #8

• Command-line options take precedent over config options as expected

• Add config file functionality per #11
  • Parsed in the following order: pyproject.toml, setup.cfg, licensecheck.toml, licensecheck.json, licensecheck.ini, ~/licensecheck.toml, ~/licensecheck.json, ~/licensecheck.ini
  • Note that the config takes precedent over command-line options
• Add optional path to requirements.txt as outlined in #9 (comment)
  • Eg. licensecheck --using requirements:c:/path/to/reqs.txt;path/to/other/reqs.txt

• Add --ignore-packages, --fail-packages,--ignore-licenses, --fail-licenses, per #7
• Fix spelling
• Added a couple examples to the readme
• Added pylintrc to pyproject.toml

• Added ability to use requirements.txt per #6
• Code clean-up + refactoring
• Fix spelling
• packagecompat.py - types.py as this module holds types + typing info

• reformat
• improve docstrings

• Add PSFL to matrix.

• Tidied up
• Added --zero/-0 flag to return non-zero exit code when an incompatible license is found

• Updated requirements
• Fallback to requirements.txt when poetry throws an error and direct the user to troubleshoot

• Improved support for GPL fans out there by detecting variants in a more granular manner. Fewer false -ves for said GPL variants. E.g. a dependency with GPL2 only will be flagged for a project using GPL3

• set stdout to utf-8

• fancy tables in simple and ansi formats

• dependencies bugfix

• First release