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

[Adam D. Barratt]

On 26.09.2012 08:12, Dmitry Smirnov wrote:
> licensecheck incorrectly detect the license of the
> attached file as BSD (2 clause) when it is really
> BSD (3 clause), see
>
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses#3-clause_license_.28.22New_BSD_License.22_or_.22Modified_BSD_License.22.29

It looks very much /not/ BSD-3, so far as I can see.

The standard third clause, as per the link you quoted above is of the 
form:

     * Neither the name of the <organization> nor the
       names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote 
products
       derived from this software without specific prior written 
permission.

whereas the file you attached says

     * The name of the contributors may be used to endorse or promote 
products
       derived from this software without specific prior written 
permission.

That's different enough to make it a different license, imo.  Obviously 
my co-maintainers may disagree.

Regards,

Adam