aur: detect common licenses not in /usr/share/license/common

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/src/aur b/src/aur
index 5a29a34..739681e 100755
--- a/src/aur
+++ b/src/aur
@@ -99,9 +99,25 @@ main() {
 		msg2 "Checking license..."
 		local free=0
 		for _license in "${license[@]}"; do
-			if [[ ! -d "/usr/share/licenses/common/$_license" ]]; then
-				warning "License $_license is not a common license"
-				free=1
+			if [[ ! -e "/usr/share/licenses/common/$_license" ]]; then
+				case "${_license#custom:}" in
+					WTFPL)
+						# accept as common, I think it should be in the licenses package.
+						:;;
+					BSD1|BSD2|BSD3|MIT|X11)
+						# accept these as common; they can't be included in the licenses package because some of the text must be customized
+						:;;
+					BSD4)
+						warning "The 4-clause BSD license is free but has practical problems.";;
+					BSD)
+						warning "License \"BSD\" is ambiguous, please  use one of \"BSD{1..4}\" to specify the number of clauses."
+						free=1
+						;;
+					*)
+						warning "License \"$_license\" is not a common license"
+						free=1
+						;;
+				esac
 			fi
 		done