Rule doesn't work for license file with name LICENSE about fileicons

[Caraczan]

I didn't see that there already is icon for license. Didn't know since it doesn't show up for me.
In project I have license file with just LICENSE name.

I saw in tmPreference scope it doesn't seem to have such rule implemented. So i tried locally to add another rule, added LICENSE, as shown below

...
<key>scope</key>
    <string>text.plain.license, text.html.markdown.license, LICENSE</string>
...

But it didn't work. I searched in documentation but didn't see anywhere, for this rule to assign icon by fixed name.

[braver]

Licenses are just plain text files. There are no packages in package control that make syntaxes specifically for licenses. There are also no recognizable characteristics of these files to make a syntax work for them automatically. Therefore it's impossible to make specific icons for them (as far as I know).

[jwortmann]

@braver You already have an icon for license files in this package: https://github.com/braver/FileIcons/blob/master/theme/file_type_license.png, and also the corresponding preferences file: https://github.com/braver/FileIcons/blob/master/preferences/file_type_license.tmPreferences

The only missing part is, that it's not applied due to the missing syntax. You could add one into the https://github.com/braver/FileIcons/tree/master/syntaxes folder, like this:

%YAML 1.2
---
# https://www.sublimetext.com/docs/syntax.html
name: Plain Text (License)
file_extensions:
  - LICENSE
  - LICENSE.txt
scope: text.plain.license
hidden: true

contexts:
  main:
    - include: scope:text.plain#prototype
    - include: scope:text.plain

And possibly another one for files named LICENSE.md, by adjusting name to Markdown (License), file_extensions to - LICENSE.md and deriving from the Markdown syntax.

There are also no recognizable characteristics of these files to make a syntax work for them automatically

License files are usually characterized by a standardized file name, either plain LICENSE, or sometimes LICENSE.md or LICENSE.txt. The file_extensions key name in Sublime syntax definitions might be a bit misleading, but it does work for full filenames (see example above).

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Edit: reading through some other issues, it appears that providing syntax aliases for non-binary files in this repository is unwanted. So a quick solution for users would be, to place such a file containing the code block above into e.g. the Packages/User folder themselves. It must be saved with .sublime-syntax extension. And here is another variant which would enable the icon for LICENSE.md files:

%YAML 1.2
---
# https://www.sublimetext.com/docs/syntax.html
name: Markdown (License)
file_extensions:
  - LICENSE.md
scope: text.html.markdown.license
hidden: true

contexts:
  main:
    - include: scope:text.html.markdown#prototype
    - include: scope:text.html.markdown