Bug#840077: licensecheck marks License unknown when license name is clearly declared in file

[Vasudev Kamath]

Package: licensecheck
Version: 3.0.24-1
Severity: normal

Hi Jonas,

I was using licensecheck via CDBS on updated fontforge source files and I
noticed several discrepancies in the output. One such is previously known
License file is being marked as unknown license file.

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

Lets see the header of Unicode/ArabicForms.c

/* Copyright: 2001 George Williams */
/* License: BSD-3-clause */
/* Contributions: Khaled Hosny, Joe Da Silva */

/* This file was generated using the program 'makeutype' for Unicode_version 9.0*/

Its clearly marked as BSD-3-clause but now licensecheck declares it as unknown!.

Similarly with Unicode/utype.c

/* Copyright: 2001 George Williams */
/* License: BSD-3-clause */
/* Contributions: Werner Lemberg, Khaled Hosny, Joe Da Silva */

I think what changed was additional Contributions: field, is this confusing
licensecheck?. This is causing some confusion in new source.

The source will be pushed to fontforge repositories from where you can test them.

Cheers,


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: amd64

Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages licensecheck depends on:
ii  libgetopt-long-descriptive-perl           0.100-1
ii  libmoo-perl                               2.002004-1
ii  libnamespace-clean-perl                   0.27-1
ii  libpath-iterator-rule-perl                1.009-1
ii  libpath-tiny-perl                         0.096-1
ii  libpod-constants-perl                     0.19-1
ii  libscalar-list-utils-perl                 1:1.45-1
ii  libsort-key-perl                          1.33-1+b2
ii  libstrictures-perl                        2.000003-1
ii  libstring-copyright-perl                  0.003004-1
ii  libstring-escape-perl                     2010.002-1
ii  libtry-tiny-perl                          0.27-1
ii  perl                                      5.22.2-5
ii  perl-base [libscalar-list-utils-perl]     5.22.2-5
ii  perl-modules-5.22 [libexperimental-perl]  5.22.2-5

Versions of packages licensecheck recommends:
ii  bash-completion  1:2.1-4.3

licensecheck suggests no packages.

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