Bug#607088: [licensecheck] Public domain *.c and *.h not detected

Benjamin Drung bdrung at debian.org
Sat Oct 20 22:33:33 UTC 2012


Am Freitag, den 12.10.2012, 17:35 +1100 schrieb Dmitry Smirnov:
> Those files only have detectable strings like 
> 
> 	2008-08-05 Igor Pavlov Public domain */
> 	2009-02-07 : Igor Pavlov : Public domain */
> 
> I think it is not possible to reliably detect license from that little input 
> hence I vote for "wontfix".

Isn't it possible to detect that the only license text is "Public
domain", which matches one to one to "public domain"? We already report
public domain licenses by matching "is in the public domain".

-- 
Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer
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