Bug#875899: licensecheck cannot detect MIT variant license
Dominique Dumont
dod at debian.org
Fri Sep 15 17:26:17 UTC 2017
Package: licensecheck
Version: 3.0.30-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
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$ head -15 3rdparty/libatomic_ops/src/atomic_ops/sysdeps/gcc/mips.h
/*
* Copyright (c) 2005,2007 Thiemo Seufer <ths at networkno.de>
*
* THIS MATERIAL IS PROVIDED AS IS, WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY EXPRESSED
* OR IMPLIED. ANY USE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK.
*
* Permission is hereby granted to use or copy this program
* for any purpose, provided the above notices are retained on all copies.
* Permission to modify the code and to distribute modified code is granted,
* provided the above notices are retained, and a notice that the code was
* modified is included with the above copyright notice.
*/
$ licensecheck 3rdparty/libatomic_ops/src/atomic_ops/sysdeps/gcc/mips.h
3rdparty/libatomic_ops/src/atomic_ops/sysdeps/gcc/mips.h: UNKNOWN
The license from this file is documented on Fedora [1] as a MIT variant.
Could you update licensecheck regexp to accept this variant ?
All the best
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:MIT
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.12.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (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 2.003002-1
ii libnamespace-clean-perl 0.27-1
ii libpath-iterator-rule-perl 1.009-1
ii libpath-tiny-perl 0.104-1
ii libpod-constants-perl 0.19-1
ii libscalar-list-utils-perl 1:1.49-1
ii libsort-key-perl 1.33-1+b5
ii libstrictures-perl 2.000003-1
ii libstring-copyright-perl 0.003005-1
ii libstring-escape-perl 2010.002-1
ii libtry-tiny-perl 0.28-1
ii perl 5.26.0-8
ii perl-base [libscalar-list-utils-perl] 5.26.0-8
licensecheck recommends no packages.
Versions of packages licensecheck suggests:
ii bash-completion 1:2.1-4.3
-- no debconf information
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