Bug#955421: licensecheck: parse markdown formatted email address entries in copyright

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Control: clone -1 -2
Control: retitle -2 licensecheck: --deb-fmt affects amount of discoveries

Quoting Dominique Dumont (2020-03-31 16:19:13)
> rollup-plugin-terser main README  file [1] is 
> written in markdown and contains:
> 
>   MIT © [Bogdan Chadkin](mailto:trysound at yandex.ru)
> 
> With --deb-fmt option, this information is extracted by licensecheck
> as is, i.e. with markdown syntax:
> 
> $ licensecheck -m -r --copyright --deb-fmt --encoding utf-8 README.md 
> README.md       UNKNOWN [Bogdan Chadkin](mailto:trysound at yandex.ru)
> 
> Without --deb-fmt option, this information is *not* extracted:
> 
> $ licensecheck -m -r --copyright --encoding utf-8 README.md 
> README.md       GENERATED FILE  *No copyright*
> 
> Could you:
> - make licensecheck behavior consistent with or without -deb-fmt option
> - convert markdown syntax to canonical copyright line

These are separate issues - forking the former into seperate bugreport.

Thanks,

 - Jonas

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