Bug#1010796: licensecheck: Licensecheck reports bogus exception

[Jonas Smedegaard]

tags -1 confirmed
reassign -1 libregexp-pattern-license-perl
found -1 3.4.0-1
retitle -1 affects licensecheck
retitle -1 libregexp-pattern-license-perl: Autoconf-2.0~g10 wrong positive
thanks

Quoting Evangelos Ribeiro Tzaras (2022-05-10 10:44:24)
> while checking the license of 
> https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-voip-team/sofia-sip/-/raw/debian/latest/m4/sac-coverage.m4 
> with licensecheck --deb-machine
> 
> it misdetects two exceptions
> 
> Files: m4/sac-coverage.m4
> Copyright: 2001, 2004, Nokia and others.
> License: GPL-2+ with Autoconf-2.0_AND_Autoconf-2.0~g10 exception
> 
> while it should be just Autoconf-2.0.

Thanks!

Technically this bug is in the underlying library 
Regexp::Pattern::License where it was (most likely) introduced with the 
addition of detecting patterns except_autoconf_2 and 
except_autoconf_2_g10 in release v3.4.  Reassigning accordingly.

Probably the pattern except_autoconf_2_g10 is too loose.  I will look 
into that later...


 - Jonas

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