Bug#660451: [licensecheck] misdetect BSD-4-clause license as BSD-3-clause

[Benjamin Drung]

Am Freitag, den 12.10.2012, 16:48 +1100 schrieb Dmitry Smirnov:
> The license in question have exactly one (first) clause of BSD family 
> licenses.
> 
> Parahraphs 2,3,4 are different and I can't tell if some of them may be 
> considered as legal equivalents to any clauses of BSD-2-clause, BSD-3-clause 
> or BSD-4-clause licenses.
> 
> Actually paragraphs 2 and 3 are taken from zlib license:
> 
> 	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zlib_License
> 
> Therefore I think it is not a BSD license at all. I'm not sure how it should 
> be called.

It should not be called BSD-x-clause license. It is a new license, but
not a BSD license. licensecheck should detect it as UNKNOWN or at most
as derived from BSD.

-- 
Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer
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