Bug#513967:

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Excerpts from Vasyl Vavrychuk's message of april 12, 2018 9:54 am:
> How about licensecheck detects pattern "See Copyright Notice at the 
> end of this file" and goes LICENSECHECK_PARSELINES from the end to 
> look for a license.

Heh - that's a clever idea.

I worry it might be too clever, though: It would complicate processing 
by needing to backtrack and rescan based on output of scanning.  Not 
very complicated but I would prefer to keep processing logic simple if 
possible.

Also, is it really needed? codesearch.debian.org has only ~100 hits for 
that pattern, and I believe licensecheck already by default checks at 
the end too.

Could you perhaps point at some real live examples where you believe 
this kind of mechanism would be useful?


Thanks,

 - Jonas
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