Allow Non-SPDX-Compliant Formats

[JustinWonjaePark]

• Fixes

  • Improved recognition of SPDX license declarations using hyphens, whitespace, colons, commas, and other separator formats.
  • Improved cleanup of license declarations with trailing comments or quoted-list terminators.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for malformed and alternate SPDX declaration formats, including quoted BSD identifiers.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The SPDX parser now accepts hyphenated and whitespace separators, plus additional declaration terminators. Tests cover malformed, comma-separated, whitespace-separated, and quoted SPDX declarations.

Changes

SPDX declaration parsing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Declaration matching and cleanup src/fosslight_source/_parsing_scancode_file_item.py, tests/test_parsing_unknown_spdx.py	The parser accepts additional SPDX separators and removes comment or quoted-list terminators. Tests cover the added declaration formats.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 48d3a

The parser can treat a newline as a valid separator and incorrectly extract license metadata from a declaration split across lines. This is a bounded correctness risk that is mergeable with explicit owner awareness or follow-up.

Possibly related PRs

• fosslight/fosslight_source_scanner#301: Both PRs modify SPDX declaration parsing and cleanup in _parsing_scancode_file_item.py.
• fosslight/fosslight_source_scanner#280: Both PRs modify SPDX-related regex parsing in _parsing_scancode_file_item.py.

Suggested labels: bug fix

Suggested reviewers: soimkim

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title describes support for non-compliant SPDX formats, which matches the changes, but it does not specify separator handling.

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Inline comments:
In `@src/fosslight_source/_parsing_scancode_file_item.py`:
- Line 20: Update the SPDX declaration regex to use [^\S\r\n] instead of \s for
separator matching, preventing declarations from spanning lines while preserving
the existing non-newline capture. Add a negative regression test covering SPDX
followed by a newline before License-Identifier.

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• src/fosslight_source/_parsing_scancode_file_item.py
• tests/test_parsing_unknown_spdx.py