Bug#830116: licensecheck doesn't distinguish LBNL BSD

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2016-07-06 16:47:23)
> Thanks for reporting,
> 
> Quoting Sandro Mani (2016-07-06 10:05:56)
> > Following is reported downstream at [1]:
> > 
> > licensecheck detects a LBNLBSD [2] header as BSD (3 clause).
> > 
> > The reported of the downstream bug asks whether licensecheck should be 
> > able to distinguish them.
> > 
> > 
> > [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1352025
> > [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:LBNLBSD?rd=Licensing/LBNLBSD
> 
> Seems to be the license labeled at SPDX as "BSD-3-Clause-LBNL".
> 
> http://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause-LBNL.html
> 
> It is much appreciated if you can use SPDX as reference where possible 
> - and for licenses not in SPDX consider requesting a registration: I 
> might take time to investigate non-SPDX licenses (as I just did), but, 
> but I will generally prioritize working on normalized SPDX data.

Just a friendly notice that I haven't forgotten about this bugreport, 
and really appreciate your reporting it.  Despite the lack of action for 
almost 4 years, I _do_ intend on fixing this in Licensecheck, just 
haven't gotten aorund to it yet.

Kind regards,

 - Jonas

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