Bug#1040063: licensecheck: misclassified OFL-1.1 as OFL-1.0 in otf files

[Arthur Bols]

Hi Jonas,

On 1/07/2023 23:39, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Licensecheck cannot meaningfully process binary files.  It can try plow
> through such files, but the result is by no means reliable.
>
> There are plans for future support for extracting metadata from specific
> known classes of binary files, notably fonts.  Hereby merging this
> bugreport with the bugreport tracking that particular issue.
>
> Until implemented, you will need to ensure that licensecheck is fed
> plaintext, e.g. as described here:
> https://wiki.debian.org/CopyrightReviewTools#licensecheck

Thanks for the quick reply!

licensecheck is used in FedoraReview, where it is run on all files. I'll 
create an issue about this.

Kind regards,
Arthur Bols