Bug#973775: licensecheck returns incorrect license

Sandro Mani manisandro at gmail.com
Thu Nov 5 05:01:26 GMT 2020


On 05.11.20 03:56, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting Sandro Mani (2020-11-04 22:54:56)
>> Package: licensecheck
>> Version: 3.1.1
>>
>> I'm reporting this downstream issue [1], for your evaluation:
>>
>> Description of problem:
>>
>> $ licensecheck COPYING
>> COPYING: Expat License GNU Lesser General Public License, Version 3
>>
>> Perhaps a bit of a pathological case.
>>
>> Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
>> licensecheck-3.1.1-3.fc33.noarch
>> perl-Regexp-Pattern-License-3.4.0-3.fc33.noarch
>>
>>
>> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1866603
> Sorry, I don't understand what is the issue here?
>
> Could you please elaborate - I fail to parse the above "Description of
> problem" and fail to find more info at the referenced bugzilla report.
> Could very well be me simply missing something obvious - please help me
> out...
Looking at the attached COPYING file, I suppose the original reporter 
expected the license to be reported just as

  GNU Lesser General Public License, Version 3

But I'll ask him to provide more info here.

Best
Sandro



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