#822309 licensecheck: license patterns: cover MIT-open-group (and MIT-open-group~no-permission-clause) #822309
- Package:
- licensecheck
- Source:
- licensecheck
- Submitter:
- Fabian Greffrath
- Date:
- 2023-05-14 15:27:06 UTC
- Severity:
- normal
Hi there, running "cme update dpkg-copyright" on the fontforge source tree [1] fails to detect the "Open Group License", which applies at least to the following files: gdraw/fontP.h fontforge/fvimportbdf.c inc/gkeysym.h No separate debian/copyright stanza is created for these files. Instead, the general stanza applies, which is plain wrong in this specific case: Files: * Copyright: 2000-2012, George Williams License: BSD-3-clause Cheers, Fabian [1] fontforge (1:2.0.20140101-1) experimental
Hello Fabian The problem comes from licensecheck which fails to detect the dual copyright and licenses: $ licensecheck -l 1000 --copyright fvimportbdf.c fvimportbdf.c: BSD (3 clause) [Copyright: 2000-2012 George Williams] That said, the situation is not so clear cut: - fvimportbdf.c "main" license and (c) owner are correctly reported by licensecheck, - the license of the "embedded" part of this file is not complete: it does not give any right of usage. It looks like a MIT [1] where the first paragraph was removed. One may wonder if the MIT license still applies or if George Williams has relicensed the embedded parts... - licensecheck fails to detect the second copyright because of [2] cme provides several ways to work around licensecheck limitations (see [3]). but it may not be practical when too many files are not scanned correctly. I currently don't know how to reconcile fvimportbdf.c case with the problem shown in [2]. I'll have to think about this... All the best [1] https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT [2] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/devscripts.git/commit/?id=cc640250c61a8c8be9bb828d1e77dc959ac73e47 [3] https://github.com/dod38fr/config-model/wiki/Updating-debian-copyright-file-with-cme and http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=Dpkg%3A%3ACopyright%3A%3AScanner&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=Debian+unstable+sid&format=html&locale=en
Hello Fabian The problem comes from licensecheck which fails to detect the dual copyright and licenses: $ licensecheck -l 1000 --copyright fvimportbdf.c fvimportbdf.c: BSD (3 clause) [Copyright: 2000-2012 George Williams] That said, the situation is not so clear cut: - fvimportbdf.c "main" license and (c) owner are correctly reported by licensecheck, - the license of the "embedded" part of this file is not complete: it does not give any right of usage. It looks like a MIT [1] where the first paragraph was removed. One may wonder if the MIT license still applies or if George Williams has relicensed the embedded parts... - licensecheck fails to detect the second copyright because of [2] cme provides several ways to work around licensecheck limitations (see [3]). but it may not be practical when too many files are not scanned correctly. I currently don't know how to reconcile fvimportbdf.c case with the problem shown in [2]. I'll have to think about this... All the best [1] https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT [2] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/devscripts.git/commit/?id=cc640250c61a8c8be9bb828d1e77dc959ac73e47 [3] https://github.com/dod38fr/config-model/wiki/Updating-debian-copyright-file-with-cme and http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=Dpkg%3A%3ACopyright%3A%3AScanner&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=Debian+unstable+sid&format=html&locale=en
I've re-assigned the bug to licensecheck package. licensecheck is now handled by Jonas. All the best
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