### Function

# AppStream spdx_license_tokenize

since: 0.9.8

#### Declaration [src]

    gchar**
    as_spdx_license_tokenize (
      const gchar* license
    )

#### Description [src]

Tokenizes the SPDX license string (or any simarly formatted string) into parts. Any license parts of the string e.g. “LGPL-2.0+” are prefexed with “@”, the conjunctive replaced with “&”, the disjunctive replaced with “|” and the WITH operator for license exceptions replaced with “^”. Brackets are added as indervidual tokens and other strings are appended into single tokens where possible.

Available since: 0.9.8

#### Parameters

`license`

  Type: `const gchar*`

  A license string, e.g. “LGPLv2+ and (QPL or GPLv2) and MIT”

  The data is owned by the caller of the function.
  The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

#### Return value

Type: An array of `utf8`

Array of strings, or `NULL` for invalid.

The array is `NULL`-terminated.
The caller of the function takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.
The return value can be `NULL`.
Each element is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.