Bug#840078: licensecheck creates dangling and false copyright blocks

[Vasudev Kamath]

Package: licensecheck
Version: 3.0.24-1
Severity: normal

Hi Jonas,

New licensecheck tool is now creating some dangling blocks of copyright in output of

DEB_MAINTAINER_MODE=1 fakeroot debian/rules pre-build

A sample is attached below from fontforge project.

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
  Copyright (c) 2009 Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com>
  ^^ Dangling copyright from unknown block!.
Files: fontforgeexe/fontforge.1
 fontforgeexe/fontimage.1
 fontforgeexe/fontlint.1
 fontforgeexe/sfddiff.1
Copyright: 2000-2002, George Williams.
  2000-2006, George Williams (gww at silcom.com).
  2000-2007, George Williams (gww at silcom.com).
  2006, George Williams (gww at silcom.com).
  2006, George Williams.
  2007, George Williams (gww at silcom.com).
License: UNKNOWN
 FIXME

Copyright: Created by George Williams with FontForge 2.0 (http:fontforge.sf.net)
^^ not copyright at all!.
Copyright: 2010-2011, iMatix Corporation and Contributors
^^ Dangling copyright which block does this belong to?.
  2013, Ben Martin
License: GPL-3+ or Expat
^^ A license block for which there is no file section?.

Again I will push updated fontforge source to repositories so you can use it for your testing.

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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