Hello,

Running licensecheck on some otf files [0] licensed as OFL-1.1, outputs
OFL-1.0:

exiftool does show the correct license:

Kind regards,
Arthur Bols

[0]
https://github.com/intel/intel-one-mono/tree/d7e86cde5aff712cd50a516b034847d1187bc512/fonts/otf

Hi Arthur,

Quoting Arthur Bols (2023-07-01 23:04:59)

Licensecheck cannot meaningfully process binary files.  It can try plow
through such files, but the result is by no means reliable.

There are plans for future support for extracting metadata from specific
known classes of binary files, notably fonts.  Hereby merging this
bugreport with the bugreport tracking that particular issue.

Until implemented, you will need to ensure that licensecheck is fed
plaintext, e.g. as described here:
https://wiki.debian.org/CopyrightReviewTools#licensecheck


Kind regards,

 - Jonas

Hi Jonas,

Thanks for the quick reply!

licensecheck is used in FedoraReview, where it is run on all files. I'll
create an issue about this.

Kind regards,
Arthur Bols

Quoting Arthur Bols (2023-07-02 12:43:54)

Feel free to involve me if/when you run into other issues.

I am happy to learn about your needs.  Some may be easy for me to either
address in the tool or guide you to work around in surrounding tooling,
and regardless I would like to learn about needs also for taking them
into account for long-term restructuring of the codebase.

 - Jonas

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