Bug#688843: licensecheck: detect BSD-3-clause as BSD-2-clause

[Benjamin Drung]

retitle 688843 [licensecheck] detects modified BSD license as BSD-2-clause
thanks

Am Mittwoch, den 26.09.2012, 20:37 +1000 schrieb Dmitry Smirnov:
> On Wed, 26 Sep 2012 18:30:50 Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> > I think my opinion here is fairly clear at the moment, but I'm also not
> > the most active of the maintainers right now, so I'll leave things to
> > see if any of the others comment.
> > 
> 
> I see your point. I'm practically convinced but out of curiosity I'd like to 
> see another another response to this. Otherwise please feel free to close at 
> your discretion.

I agree with Adam. The provided license is not a BSD-3-clause license,
but a BSD-2-clause license with an additional clause. A BSD-2-clause
license is not equivalent to a BSD-2-clause license with an additional
clause. This additional clause could specify anything. I consider it a
bug that this license is detected as 'BSD-2-clause'. It should be
detected as 'modified BSD-2-clause' or as 'modified BSD'.

PS: It's called BSD, not BDS. ;)

PPS: Patches are always welcome. :)

-- 
Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer
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