Bug#977969: licensecheck: fails to detect "This file is licensed under GPLv2 or later"

Jonas Smedegaard dr at jones.dk
Wed Dec 23 14:59:46 GMT 2020


Control: retitle -1 licensecheck: fails to detect "Licensed under GPLv2 or later"

Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2020-12-23 15:47:06)
> The file goo/GooTimer.h in project Poppler contains this:
> 
> //
> // This file is licensed under GPLv2 or later
> //
> 
> Which is undetected by licensecheck:
> 
> $ licensecheck GooTimer.cc 
> GooTimer.cc: UNKNOWN

Doesn't detect "Licensed under GPLv2 or later" either, found in 
poppler/JPEG2000Stream.cc but a far more common pattern.


 - Jonas

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