Hallo Luca,
Luca Niccoli <lultimou...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Souce files of the program I'm packaging contain the following header:
>
> /* fswebcam - Small and simple webcam for *nix */
> /*===========================================================*/
> /* Copyright (C)2005-2006 Philip Heron <p...@firestorm.cx> */
> /* */
> /* This program is distributed under the terms of the GNU */
> /* General Public License, version 2. You may use, modify, */
> /* and redistribute it under the terms of this license. A */
> /* copy should be included with this source. */
>
> which isn't recognised as a GPL license statement by licensecheck.
> What should I do?
> Simply ignore it, file a bug against licensecheck,
It's a bug in licensecheck. It doesn't handle the C comments and sees
“GNU / General Public License.” It must remove the comments, before it
removes the character *, because after this it will not know if a single
slash was a single slash or part of a C comment.
#v+
--- /usr/bin/licensecheck 2009-01-22 20:34:36.000000000 +0100
+++ /tmp/licensecheck 2009-01-31 13:03:45.445308037 +0100
@@ -283,8 +283,8 @@
if $opt_verbose;
$content =~ tr/\t\r\n/ /;
+ $content =~ s#(:?\*/|/[/\*])##g;
$content =~ tr% A-Za-z.,@;0-9\(\)/-%%cd;
- $content =~ s#//##g;
$content =~ s/ c //g; # Remove fortran comments
$content =~ tr/ //s;
#v-
But the parsing of the license text can also be improved.
#v+
--- /usr/bin/licensecheck 2009-01-22 20:34:36.000000000 +0100
+++ /tmp/licensecheck 2009-01-31 13:03:45.445308037 +0100
@@ -406,8 +406,12 @@
$license = "GPL$gplver$extrainfo $license";
}
- if ($licensetext =~ /is distributed.*terms.*GPL/) {
- $license = "GPL (unversioned/unknown version) $license";
+ if ($licensetext =~ /is distributed.*terms.*(:?GPL|GNU General Public
License)/) {
+ if ($licensetext =~ /version ([\d.]*)/) {
+ $license = "GPLv$1 $license";
+ } else {
+ $license = "GPL (unversioned/unknown version) $license";
+ }
}
if ($licensetext =~ /This file is part of the .*Qt GUI Toolkit. This file
may be distributed under the ter
#v-
Bye, Jörg.
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