Bug#1059907: licensecheck: Please use correct case for BSD-2-Clause & BSD-3-Clause

Peter B peter at pblackman.plus.com
Wed Jan 3 12:31:24 GMT 2024


Package: licensecheck
Version: 3.3.9-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: upstream
X-Debbugs-Cc: peter at pblackman.plus.com

Dear Maintainer,

licensecheck outputs BSD licenses as BSD-2-clause & BSD-3-clause,
but the SPDX short-names use title case with upper case C
as in BSD-2-Clause & BSD-3-Clause.
https://spdx.org/licenses/

While the detected license is still clear,
this causes case sensitive comparisons by license-reconcile & 
licenserecon to fail.

Please use the official SPDX short-names for these licences.

It may be possible to fix this by changing the relevant strings in this 
source file
https://sources.debian.org/src/libstring-license-perl/0.0.9-2/t/license.t/


Regards,
Peter


-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
   APT prefers unstable
   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.6.8-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, 
TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages licensecheck depends on:
ii  libfeature-compat-class-perl    0.06-1
ii  libfeature-compat-try-perl      0.05-1
ii  libio-interactive-perl          1.025-1
ii  liblog-any-adapter-screen-perl  0.140-2
ii  liblog-any-perl                 1.717-1
ii  libnamespace-clean-perl         0.27-2
ii  libpath-iterator-rule-perl      1.015-2
ii  libpath-tiny-perl               0.144-1
ii  libpod-constants-perl           0.19-2
ii  libstring-copyright-perl        0.003014-1
ii  libstring-escape-perl           2010.002-3
ii  libstring-license-perl          0.0.9-2
ii  perl                            5.36.0-10

Versions of packages licensecheck recommends:
ii  libregexp-pattern-license-perl  3.11.0-1

Versions of packages licensecheck suggests:
ii  bash-completion  1:2.11-8

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