Bug#837973: licensecheck should check license of font files

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2016-09-16 09:46:58)
> Quoting Pirate Praveen (2016-09-16 06:34:29)
> > Many times ftp master reject a package because copyright of embedded 
> > fonts are missing. It wuld be nice if licensecheck can find it 
> > before the upload itself.
> 
> Thanks for reporting this!
> 
> This is already on my mental TODO-list (therefore thanks for making it 
> visible by this bugreport!): One of the reasons for my adopting and 
> refactoring licensecheck was to incorporate the extensions developed 
> as part of CDBS - including the /usr/lib/cdbs/license-miner which 
> extracts metadata from binary files like fonts and graphics files.

My current workaround for this no longer rely on CDBS, but essentially 
does this:

1>&2 exiftool '-textOut!' %d%f.%e:meta -short -short -recurse -ext ttf .
licensecheck --copyright --deb-machine --recursive --lines 0 --check '.*' --ignore '.*\.ttf$' -- *
find -type f -name '*.ttf' -delete

My actual workaround scripts are tailored to each package, and typically 
the one most detailed and most up-to-date is the one for ghostscript: 
https://sources.debian.org/src/ghostscript/9.53.3%7Edfsg-5/debian/copyright-check/


 - Jonas

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