unplugged-system/external/spdx-tools/docs/idsearcher-assumptions.md

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SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
The short-form ID searcher in `package idsearcher` makes the following assumptions:
- The searcher uses bufio.Scanner to scan the contents of each file, line by
line. If it encounters a line that is too large to fit within the buffer, it
will stop scanning that file. As a result, it will currently only pick up
short-form IDs that occur prior to such a line.
- For PackageLicenseInfoFromFiles (in Package) and LicenseInfoInFile (in File),
an exception should be treated as a separate "license". For example, in the
expression `GPL-2.0-only WITH Classpath-exception-2.0`, each of `GPL-2.0-only`
and `Classpath-exception-2.0` will be listed separately.