Bug#1098479: licensecheck: fails to detect PSF-2 fulltext

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Control: retitle -1 licensecheck: fails to detect PSF-2 fulltext

Quoting Soren Stoutner (2025-02-21 03:44:10)
> Package: licensecheck
> Version: 3.3.9-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> The PSF-2 license is detected as the GPL.
> 
> For example:
> 
> https://salsa.debian.org/cryptocoin-team/electrum/-/blob/master/electrum/_vendor/distutils/LICENSE?ref_type=heads
> 
> This file contains a number of related licenses, but none of them are the the GPL.

There are two bugs here:

a) licensecheck fails to detect license fulltext PSF-2
b) licensecheck misdetects "released under the GPL" as a license grant

Of those, I consider a) to be important, and b) to be only minor.

I have rephrased the bugreport to track only a) (and also corrected a typo
in the license shortname PSF-2).

Thanks for reporting,

 - Jonas

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