Bug#1116648: licensecheck: Use license text from Software::LicenseMoreUtils

Andrew Sayers 2025-bugs.debian.org at pileofstuff.org
Mon Sep 29 18:30:33 BST 2025


Package: licensecheck
Version: 3.3.9-1
Severity: wishlist

licensecheck provides output like:

Files: ... files ...
Copyright: ... me ...
License: ... license ...
 FIXME

It's quite awkward to fill in the FIXME's manually (and to make sure I get
the right spelling so lintian doesn't yell at me). The canonical source
appears to be /usr/share/perl5/Software/LicenseMoreUtils/debian-summaries.yml
in libsoftware-licensemoreutils-perl - can licensecheck paste the value in
from there?

I've skimmed #1001634, which suggests the "FIXME"s are supposed to encourage
users to check the license statement.  But to be honest the more manual work
I'm expected to do, the more I tend to click through without thinking.
How about adding an option like `--add-license-text`, and changing `FIXME` to
e.g. `Rerun with `--add-license-text if the above license is correct`?


-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, armhf

Kernel: Linux 6.16.3+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages licensecheck depends on:
ii  libfeature-compat-class-perl    0.07-1
ii  libfeature-compat-try-perl      0.05-1
ii  libio-interactive-perl          1.027-1
ii  liblog-any-adapter-screen-perl  0.141-1
ii  liblog-any-perl                 1.717-1
ii  libnamespace-clean-perl         0.27-2
ii  libpath-iterator-rule-perl      1.015-2
ii  libpath-tiny-perl               0.148-1
ii  libpod-constants-perl           0.19-2
ii  libstring-copyright-perl        0.003014-1
ii  libstring-escape-perl           2010.002-3
ii  libstring-license-perl          0.0.11-1
ii  perl                            5.40.1-6

Versions of packages licensecheck recommends:
ii  libregexp-pattern-license-perl  3.11.2-1

Versions of packages licensecheck suggests:
ii  bash-completion  1:2.16.0-7

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