Bug#829667: License headers

[Sandro Mani]

On 05.07.2016 15:09, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting Sandro Mani (2016-07-05 14:15:26)
>> On 05.07.2016 12:56, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>>> Thanks for elaborating on how Fedora uses licensecheck for quality
>>> assurance.  I appreciate your contacting upstreams to ensure that
>>> licensing statements are unambiguous and embedded in each file where
>>> copyright is claimed.  But instead of suggesting upstreams to
>>> conform to the more strict principle of putting licensing statements
>>> at the top of each file, I recommend that instead Fedora considers
>>> adjusting its quality assureance process to scan whole files instead
>>> of only the header.
>> Well, I suppose it is licensecheck itself which only scans the
>> headers?
>> It is not a Fedora policy of any sort to only scan the headers of the
>> files, but we are actually relying on the licensecheck script to
>> detect the license of the various files in the source tarball. And in
>> this particular case:
>>
>> $ licensecheck App-Licensecheck-v3.0.1/bin/licensecheck
>> App-Licensecheck-v3.0.1/lib/App/Licensecheck.pm
>> App-Licensecheck-v3.0.1/bin/licensecheck: UNKNOWN
>> App-Licensecheck-v3.0.1/lib/App/Licensecheck.pm: UNKNOWN
>>
>>
>> (But I don't want to be annyoing or anything, just following our
>> guidelines ;) )
> You are not annoying, not at all!
>
> If you do "licensecheck --help" you will see that there are options to
> either check the whole file (--lines 0) or bottom in addition to top
> (--tail N).
>
> I recommend to scan the whole file.
>
Hmm,

$ licensecheck -r --lines 0 App-Licensecheck-v3.0.1
App-Licensecheck-v3.0.1/bin/licensecheck: UNKNOWN
App-Licensecheck-v3.0.1/lib/App/Licensecheck.pm: UNKNOWN
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