Bug#948531: licensecheck incorrectly detects LGPL in a GPL COPYING license file

[Aurélien COUDERC]

Package: licensecheck
Version: 3.0.39-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

running licensecheck against this [1] upstream repo, the COPYING file is
incorrectly detected as LGPL whereas it’s actually GPL.

$ licensecheck . | \grep "\./COPYING:"
./COPYING: GNU Lesser General Public License


I guess it is because the license preamble mentions:
(Some other Free Software Foundation software is covered by
the GNU Library General Public License instead.)


[1] git://anongit.kde.org/kcalc.git



Happy hacking !
--
Aurélien



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Versions of packages licensecheck depends on:
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ii  liblog-any-adapter-screen-perl         0.140-1
ii  liblog-any-perl                        1.707-1
ii  libmoo-perl                            2.003006-1
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ii  libpath-iterator-rule-perl             1.014-1
ii  libpath-tiny-perl                      0.108-1
ii  libpod-constants-perl                  0.19-1
ii  libre-engine-re2-perl                  0.13-4+b1
ii  libregexp-pattern-license-perl         3.1.99-1
ii  libregexp-pattern-perl                 0.2.11-1
ii  libscalar-list-utils-perl              1:1.53-1
ii  libsort-key-perl                       1.33-2+b2
ii  libstrictures-perl                     2.000006-1
ii  libstring-copyright-perl               0.003006-1
ii  libstring-escape-perl                  2010.002-2
ii  libtry-tiny-perl                       0.30-1
ii  perl                                   5.30.0-9
ii  perl-base [libscalar-list-utils-perl]  5.30.0-9

licensecheck recommends no packages.

Versions of packages licensecheck suggests:
ii  bash-completion  1:2.9-1

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