[Linting Rule] Software Has License

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This rule ports the following steps of R CMD check (see the conformance table for the legend):

This rule is a best-effort rule.

Finds software projects without a license (a LICENSE file or the License field of the DESCRIPTION).
This linting rule is implemented in src/linter/rules/software-has-license.ts.

Linting rules can be configured by passing a configuration object to the linter query as shown in the example below. The software-has-license rule accepts the following configuration options:

• checkDescriptionFile
  Whether to also inspect the DESCRIPTION file for a License field
  R CMD check #25

cat("a project without a license")

The linting query can be used to run this rule on the above example:

[ { "type": "linter",   "rules": [ { "name": "software-has-license",     "config": {} } ] } ]

Results (prettified and summarized):

Query: linter (0 ms)
   ╰ Software Has License (software-has-license):
       ╰ certain:
           ╰ No license found in the project

More examples are the test cases in test/functionality/linter/lint-software-has-license.test.ts.