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

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Arthur Bols (2023-07-02 12:43:54)
> 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.

Feel free to involve me if/when you run into other issues.

I am happy to learn about your needs.  Some may be easy for me to either
address in the tool or guide you to work around in surrounding tooling,
and regardless I would like to learn about needs also for taking them
into account for long-term restructuring of the codebase.

 - Jonas

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