Bug#867302: licensecheck: incorrectly parses multi-line copyright notices

Wed Jul 5 19:21:00 UTC 2017

Jonas Smedegaard:
> Quoting Ximin Luo (2017-07-05 20:07:00)
>> This breaks some of my test cases; attached is an updated patch. It 
>> gives good results for Sage:
> 
> The patch relaxes the $dash_re regex to match multiple dashes.  Can you 
> provide me an example of where that is useful?
> 

Yes, if you look at copyright-test.sh that I just sent in that other email, and run it in the sage/ directory of the sagemath package, you'll see that this $dash_re is useful for src/sage/modular/modform/all.py:

#       Copyright (C) 2004--2006 William Stein <wstein at gmail.com>

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