Bug#1040063: licensecheck: misclassified OFL-1.1 as OFL-1.0 in otf files

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Control: forcemerge 837973 -1

Hi Arthur,

Quoting Arthur Bols (2023-07-01 23:04:59)
> Running licensecheck on some otf files [0] licensed as OFL-1.1, outputs 
> OFL-1.0:
> > $ licensecheck intelone-mono-font-family-bolditalic.otf --debug
> > reading part(s) of file intelone-mono-font-family-bolditalic.otf as 
> > raw bytes
> > tail offset set to 101480
> > collected some licensing: OFL-1.0
> > resolved license expression: OFL-1.0
> > intelone-mono-font-family-bolditalic.otf: SIL Open Font License 1.0

Licensecheck cannot meaningfully process binary files.  It can try plow
through such files, but the result is by no means reliable.

There are plans for future support for extracting metadata from specific
known classes of binary files, notably fonts.  Hereby merging this
bugreport with the bugreport tracking that particular issue.

Until implemented, you will need to ensure that licensecheck is fed
plaintext, e.g. as described here:
https://wiki.debian.org/CopyrightReviewTools#licensecheck


Kind regards,

 - Jonas

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