Add a licenseRule.json file for checking of SPDX license identifiers

The license test in qtqa reads this file
in order to check the validity of the license used.
This file reproduce the QUIP-18 [1] rules, with some exceptions.

Each entry in the file corresponds to a set of licensing rules.

A set of licensing rules can depend on the file ending,
registered in "file_pattern_ending". The last entry in the
file has no "file_pattern_ending", it sets the rules for the
files whose licensing does not depend on their ending.

The license to be used depends on the location
of the file within the Qt module repository.
Let's call this "<true_location>".
The  "<true_location>" can also correspond to a file name,
offering flexibility for exceptions to the rule.
The "<true_location>" are registered in "location".

For each "<true_location>" there is a
"file type" entry and a "spdx" entry.
The "spdx" entry gives the rule:
the expected license tag(s) in SPDX format
for the file ending (if applicable) and "<true_location>".
The "file type" informs on the QUIP-18 type
the tested file corresponds to. It is purely informational
for the reader.

The set of rules are tested in order of appearance
in the json file. For this reason, a more constraining
ending (like "special.txt") needs to appear in
a "file_pattern_ending" located before
the "file_pattern_ending" of a less constraining ending (like ".txt").
Also, a file ending cannot be present in two "file_pattern_ending".

"file_pattern_ending" and "spdx" should list strings.
"<true_location>" can be regular expressions.

During the test the deeper "<true_location>" are
checked first. The order is which they appear in the json file
does not matter.

To test this file, run
QT_MODULE_TO_TEST=../qtsensors perl tests/prebuild/license/tst_licenses.pl

[1]: https://contribute.qt-project.org/quips/18

Task-number: QTBUG-121039
Change-Id: I8fdab78e901e53c5b92c53b7a4bea946c5837f22
Reviewed-by: Kai Köhne <kai.koehne@qt.io>
(cherry picked from commit 630878be3950ae056267759fc3fa528d06126373)
Reviewed-by: Qt Cherry-pick Bot <cherrypick_bot@qt-project.org>

1 files changed, 89 insertions, 0 deletions

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+[
+    {
+        "comment" : ["file_pattern_ending: strings matched against the end of a file name.",
+                     "location keys: regular expression matched against the beginning of",
+                     "the file path (relative to the git submodule root).",
+                     "spdx: list of SPDX-License-Expression's allowed in the matching files.",
+                     "-------------------------------------------------------",
+                     "Files with the following endings are Build System licensed,",
+                     "unless they are examples",
+                     "Files with other endings can also be build system files"
+                     ],
+        "file_pattern_ending" : ["CMakeLists.txt", ".cmake", ".pro", ".pri", ".prf",
+                     "configure", "configure.bat", "cmake.in", "plist.in", "CMakeLists.txt.in"],
+        "location" : {
+            "" : {
+                "comment" : "Default",
+                "file type" : "build system",
+                "spdx"      : ["BSD-3-Clause"]
+            },
+            "(.*)(examples/|snippets/)" : {
+                "comment" : "Example takes precedence",
+                "file type" : "examples and snippets",
+                "spdx" : ["LicenseRef-Qt-Commercial OR BSD-3-Clause"]
+            }
+        }
+    },
+    {
+        "comments" : ["Files with the following endings are Tool licensed,",
+                      "unless they are examples.",
+                      "Files with other endings can also be tool files."],
+        "file_pattern_ending" : [".sh", ".py", ".pl", ".bat", ".ps1"],
+        "location" :{
+            "" : {
+                "comment" : "Default",
+                "file type" : "tools and utils",
+                "spdx"      : ["LicenseRef-Qt-Commercial OR GPL-3.0-only WITH Qt-GPL-exception-1.0"]
+            },
+            "(.*)(examples/|snippets/)" : {
+                "comment" : "Example takes precedence",
+                "file type" : "examples and snippets",
+                "spdx" : ["LicenseRef-Qt-Commercial OR BSD-3-Clause"]
+            }
+        }
+    },
+    {
+        "comment" : "Files with the following endings are Documentation licensed.",
+        "file_pattern_ending" : [".qdoc", ".qdocinc" , ".qdocconf", ".txt", "README", "qt_attribution.json"],
+        "location" :{
+            "" : {
+                "comment" : "",
+                "file type" : "documentation",
+                "spdx"      : ["LicenseRef-Qt-Commercial OR GFDL-1.3-no-invariants-only"]
+            }
+        }
+    },
+    {
+        "comment" : ["All other files",
+                     "The licensing is defined only by the file location in the Qt module repository.",
+                     "NO <file_pattern_ending> key for this case!",
+                     "This needs to be the last entry of the file."],
+        "location" : {
+            "" : {
+                "comment" : "Default",
+                "file type" : "module and plugin",
+                "spdx"      : ["LicenseRef-Qt-Commercial OR LGPL-3.0-only OR GPL-2.0-only OR GPL-3.0-only"]
+            },
+            "src/" : {
+                "comment" : "Default",
+                "file type" : "module and plugin",
+                "spdx"      : ["LicenseRef-Qt-Commercial OR LGPL-3.0-only OR GPL-2.0-only OR GPL-3.0-only"]
+            },
+            "tests/" : {
+                "comment" : "Default",
+                "file type" : "test",
+                "spdx" : ["LicenseRef-Qt-Commercial OR GPL-3.0-only"]
+            },
+            "(.*)(examples/|snippets/)" : {
+                "comment" : "Default",
+                "file type" : "examples and snippets",
+                "spdx" : ["LicenseRef-Qt-Commercial OR BSD-3-Clause"]
+            },
+            "config.tests/" : {
+                "comment" : "Default",
+                "file type" : "build system",
+                "spdx" : ["BSD-3-Clause"]
+            }
+        }
+    }
+]