Bug#700938: Patch for licensecheck to detect (A|L)GPL licenses more permissively (plural wordings)

Laurent Rineau (CGAL/GeometryFactory) laurent.rineau at cgal.org
Tue Feb 19 14:57:20 UTC 2013


Package: devscripts
Version: 2.13.0
Severity: normal

Thanks for having fixed the bug #659231.

I have another one, now. The attached file "ImageIO.h" is part of CGAL-4.1. 
Its license is LGPLv3+, but licensecheck, from devscripts 2.13.0, sees it as 
UNKNOWN.

The reason is that the wording of the license is about *files* (plural) 
instead of a software (singular).

The attached patch "0002-Fix-the-detection-of-L-A-GPL.patch" formatted with 
git-format-patch, fixes that bug. It replaces "it" by "(it|them)", so that the 
regular expressions accept sentences about plural things.

-- 
Laurent Rineau, PhD
R&D Engineer at GeometryFactory           http://www.geometryfactory.com/
Release Manager of the CGAL Project       http://www.cgal.org/
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