Bug#840077: licensecheck marks License unknown when license name is clearly declared in file
Vasudev Kamath
vasudev at copyninja.info
Sat Oct 8 03:51:20 UTC 2016
Package: licensecheck
Version: 3.0.24-1
Severity: normal
Hi Jonas,
I was using licensecheck via CDBS on updated fontforge source files and I
noticed several discrepancies in the output. One such is previously known
License file is being marked as unknown license file.
Files: Unicode/ArabicForms.c
Unicode/utype.c
contrib/fonttools/dewoff.c
contrib/fonttools/woff.c
fontforge/ofl.h
inc/utype.h
mackeys/en.po
po/en_GB.po
Copyright: 2000-2006, George Williams
2000-2007, George Williams
2001, George Williams
2007, George Williams
2010, George Williams
License: UNKNOWN
Lets see the header of Unicode/ArabicForms.c
/* Copyright: 2001 George Williams */
/* License: BSD-3-clause */
/* Contributions: Khaled Hosny, Joe Da Silva */
/* This file was generated using the program 'makeutype' for Unicode_version 9.0*/
Its clearly marked as BSD-3-clause but now licensecheck declares it as unknown!.
Similarly with Unicode/utype.c
/* Copyright: 2001 George Williams */
/* License: BSD-3-clause */
/* Contributions: Werner Lemberg, Khaled Hosny, Joe Da Silva */
I think what changed was additional Contributions: field, is this confusing
licensecheck?. This is causing some confusion in new source.
The source will be pushed to fontforge repositories from where you can test them.
Cheers,
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: amd64
Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages licensecheck depends on:
ii libgetopt-long-descriptive-perl 0.100-1
ii libmoo-perl 2.002004-1
ii libnamespace-clean-perl 0.27-1
ii libpath-iterator-rule-perl 1.009-1
ii libpath-tiny-perl 0.096-1
ii libpod-constants-perl 0.19-1
ii libscalar-list-utils-perl 1:1.45-1
ii libsort-key-perl 1.33-1+b2
ii libstrictures-perl 2.000003-1
ii libstring-copyright-perl 0.003004-1
ii libstring-escape-perl 2010.002-1
ii libtry-tiny-perl 0.27-1
ii perl 5.22.2-5
ii perl-base [libscalar-list-utils-perl] 5.22.2-5
ii perl-modules-5.22 [libexperimental-perl] 5.22.2-5
Versions of packages licensecheck recommends:
ii bash-completion 1:2.1-4.3
licensecheck suggests no packages.
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