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@rzr rzr commented Sep 26, 2025

I noticed while using https://reuse.software/
this false positive error:

reuse.extract - ERROR - Could not parse 'MIT\n','
reuse.extract - ERROR - \
  '.../FreeRTOS-Kernel/.github/scripts/kernel_checker.py' \
  holds an SPDX expression that cannot be parsed, skipping the file

Relate-to: #1321

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I noticed while using https://reuse.software/
this false positive error:

    reuse.extract - ERROR - Could not parse 'MIT\n','
    reuse.extract - ERROR - \
      '.../FreeRTOS-Kernel/.github/scripts/kernel_checker.py' \
      holds an SPDX expression that cannot be parsed, skipping the file

Origin: FreeRTOS#1322
Relate-to: FreeRTOS#1321
Signed-off-by: Philippe Coval <[email protected]>
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aggarg commented Sep 29, 2025

This line does not need to be parsed by the tool as it is not license. Seems more like a tool limitation.

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rzr commented Sep 29, 2025

This line does not need to be parsed by the tool as it is not license. Seems more like a tool limitation.

yes i can confirm , that's why i committed as a workaround
Feel free to ignore if you think it is polluting the code, but it helped me to scan some repository that pull freertos as submodule dependency.

moninom1 pushed a commit to moninom1/FreeRTOS-Kernel that referenced this pull request Sep 30, 2025
Signed-off-by: Gaurav Aggarwal <[email protected]>
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