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License DB detects no licenses for majority of Nuget packages

Summary

License DB detects no license for many Nuget packages, including the following:

Test project shows also many Nuget packages with unknown license.

Possible fixes

There is a similar issue with Maven packages, the case maybe in the detection logic

Implementation Plan

Iteration 1

  • Extend nuget license classification to support GitHub URLs and validate that Microsoft.ChakraCore is fixed

Iteration 2

  • Extend nuget license classification to support HTML and validate that Remotion.Linq is fixed

Iteration 3

  • Log nuget classification results

Iteration 4

  • Rewrite GitHub URLS to get raw text content

Iteration 5

  • Strip HTML tags in ClassifyURL

Iteration 6

  • Dynamically generate URLs with different variations in urlcache.go
Edited by Philip Cunningham