Merge branch 'dhatim:master' into patch-1

Author: JarnoRFB

.github/workflows/build.yml

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ on:
         branches: [ '*' ]
 jobs:
     build:
-        runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+        runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
         strategy:
             matrix:
                 python-version: [ '2.7', '3.5', '3.6', '3.7', '3.8', '3.9', '3.10', '3.11' ]

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ on:
                 required: true
 jobs:
     build:
-        runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+        runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
         strategy:
             matrix:
                 python-version: [ '2.7', '3.5', '3.6', '3.7', '3.8', '3.9', '3.10', '3.11' ]

README.rst

@@ -194,6 +194,20 @@ Also supports pyproject.toml like:
     [tool.liccheck.authorized_packages]
     uuid = "1.30"
 
+By default, exact matching is required between each package's license and one of the license of the authorized or unauthorized list.
+You can also provide regular expressions to match licenses by using the ``as_regex`` boolean flag. For instance, to exclude GPL licenses,
+one could define the following configuration in ``pyproject.toml``:
+
+::
+
+    ...
+
+    unauthorized_licenses = [
+        '\bgpl'
+    ]
+    as_regex = true
+    
+
 Using liccheck with pre-commit
 ==============================