Inconsistent display of repository licenses in the frontend UI

[H0llyW00dzZ]

Description

The repository license information is sometimes missing or disappearing from the frontend UI. This inconsistency in displaying licenses affects the user's ability to quickly identify the license of a given repository.

Expected behavior:
The repository license information should be consistently and accurately displayed in the frontend UI for all repositories, regardless of any changes made to the repository.

Actual behavior:
The repository license information is sometimes missing or disappears from the frontend UI, leading to inconsistencies in displaying licenses across different repositories.

Gitea Version

v1.23.1

Can you reproduce the bug on the Gitea demo site?

No

Log Gist

No response

Screenshots

For example, in the Go language repository, the license is correctly shown as BSD-3-Clause:

However, in another repository, such as Gitea, the license information is not displayed at all:

Note

In the Gitea repository, the license was previously shown as MIT License. However, after some changes were made (e.g, pull from original repository), the license information disappeared from the UI.

Git Version

v2.47.1

Operating System

Linux

How are you running Gitea?

Running on Kubernetes

Database

SQLite

[H0llyW00dzZ]

Also, regarding this bug, the license information is inconsistently displayed in the frontend UI. Sometimes it appears, and other times it disappears, leading to an inconsistent user experience when viewing repository.

[silverwind]

Might be some UI/context bug if the display is flaky. At least the license is classified correctly when passed to licenseclassifier:

$ go run github.com/google/licenseclassifier/v2/tools/identify_license LICENSE
2025/01/13 20:15:20 Classifying license(s): /Users/silverwind/git/gitea/LICENSE
2025/01/13 20:15:20 Finished Classifying License "/Users/silverwind/git/gitea/LICENSE": 2.289541ms
/Users/silverwind/git/gitea/LICENSE Copyright:Copyright (variant: , confidence: 1, start: 1, end: 1)
/Users/silverwind/git/gitea/LICENSE Copyright:Copyright (variant: , confidence: 1, start: 2, end: 2)
/Users/silverwind/git/gitea/LICENSE MIT (variant: pristine.txt, confidence: 1, start: 4, end: 20)

[yp05327]

Are there any error logs?
I have mirrored on in my local. Try to reproduce it.

[H0llyW00dzZ]

Are there any error logs? I have mirrored on in my local. Try to reproduce it.

There is no error; it just disappears and then reappears after about 10 minutes.

[lunny]

Are there any error logs? I have mirrored on in my local. Try to reproduce it.

There is no error; it just disappears and then reappears after about 10 minutes.

This has been fixed by #33255