Wildcards like * and ? match / in the specification, yet
the attached test case produces a mismatch:

Expat            | Apache-2.0        a/b/test.c

Hi Julian,

licenserecon handles wildcards using /usr/bin/ls
 From your example:

ls */*.c
ls: cannot access '*/*.c': No such file or directory

However;
ls */*/*.c
a/b/test.c

ISTM that it's your test copyright that mishandles wildcards ;-)

Cheers,
Peter

On second thoughts, I realise you are correct here.

DEP-5 spec says; ...

"Both [wildcards] match slashes (/) and leading dots, unlike shell globs.
The pattern *.in therefore matches any file whose name ends in .in anywhere in the source tree,
not just at the top level."

See also https://bugs.debian.org/1086136

With your example file
Files: a/*.c

would work with lrc as it stands.
But if there are multiple asterisks in the Files: field
lrc currently reverts to a shell glob.

Are you having issues with a particular package that I could look at?

Regards,
Peter