Bug#513967:

[Vasyl Vavrychuk]

licensecheck seems not checking at the end by default because for
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lua/lua/master/lua.h I get

licensecheck lua.h
lua.h: UNKNOWN

Maybe described feature is needed for reporter of this bug. Also if we
want to have fully automated way to licensecheck of all Debian
packages than we need it.


On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 5:56 PM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
> 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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