Bug#840078: licensecheck creates dangling and false copyright blocks

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Excerpts from Vasudev Kamath's message of October 8, 2016 5:56 am:
> Package: licensecheck
> Version: 3.0.24-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi Jonas,
> 
> New licensecheck tool is now creating some dangling blocks of copyright in output of
> 
> DEB_MAINTAINER_MODE=1 fakeroot debian/rules pre-build
> 
> A sample is attached below from fontforge project.
> 
> Files: Unicode/ArabicForms.c
>  Unicode/utype.c
>  contrib/fonttools/dewoff.c
>  contrib/fonttools/woff.c
>  fontforge/ofl.h
>  inc/utype.h
>  mackeys/en.po
>  po/en_GB.po
> Copyright: 2000-2006, George Williams
>   2000-2007, George Williams
>   2001, George Williams
>   2007, George Williams
>   2010, George Williams
> License: UNKNOWN
>   Copyright (c) 2009 Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com>
>   ^^ Dangling copyright from unknown block!.
> Files: fontforgeexe/fontforge.1
>  fontforgeexe/fontimage.1
>  fontforgeexe/fontlint.1
>  fontforgeexe/sfddiff.1
> Copyright: 2000-2002, George Williams.
>   2000-2006, George Williams (gww at silcom.com).
>   2000-2007, George Williams (gww at silcom.com).
>   2006, George Williams (gww at silcom.com).
>   2006, George Williams.
>   2007, George Williams (gww at silcom.com).
> License: UNKNOWN
>  FIXME
> 
> Copyright: Created by George Williams with FontForge 2.0 (http:fontforge.sf.net)
> ^^ not copyright at all!.
> Copyright: 2010-2011, iMatix Corporation and Contributors
> ^^ Dangling copyright which block does this belong to?.
>   2013, Ben Martin
> License: GPL-3+ or Expat
> ^^ A license block for which there is no file section?.

I fail to reproduce the bug.

If this is still an issue, then please provide the output of only the
licensecheck command - without the licensecheck2dep5 wrapper applied by
CDBS (you should be able to get the bare command from the buildlog.


 - Jonas