Your message dated Fri, 15 May 2020 17:06:25 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#875899: licensecheck cannot detect MIT variant license
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regarding licensecheck cannot detect MIT variant license
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Package: licensecheck
Version: 3.0.30-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
$ head -15 3rdparty/libatomic_ops/src/atomic_ops/sysdeps/gcc/mips.h
/*
* Copyright (c) 2005,2007 Thiemo Seufer <[email protected]>
*
* THIS MATERIAL IS PROVIDED AS IS, WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY EXPRESSED
* OR IMPLIED. ANY USE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK.
*
* Permission is hereby granted to use or copy this program
* for any purpose, provided the above notices are retained on all copies.
* Permission to modify the code and to distribute modified code is granted,
* provided the above notices are retained, and a notice that the code was
* modified is included with the above copyright notice.
*/
$ licensecheck 3rdparty/libatomic_ops/src/atomic_ops/sysdeps/gcc/mips.h
3rdparty/libatomic_ops/src/atomic_ops/sysdeps/gcc/mips.h: UNKNOWN
The license from this file is documented on Fedora [1] as a MIT variant.
Could you update licensecheck regexp to accept this variant ?
All the best
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:MIT
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.12.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US:en (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 2.003002-1
ii libnamespace-clean-perl 0.27-1
ii libpath-iterator-rule-perl 1.009-1
ii libpath-tiny-perl 0.104-1
ii libpod-constants-perl 0.19-1
ii libscalar-list-utils-perl 1:1.49-1
ii libsort-key-perl 1.33-1+b5
ii libstrictures-perl 2.000003-1
ii libstring-copyright-perl 0.003005-1
ii libstring-escape-perl 2010.002-1
ii libtry-tiny-perl 0.28-1
ii perl 5.26.0-8
ii perl-base [libscalar-list-utils-perl] 5.26.0-8
licensecheck recommends no packages.
Versions of packages licensecheck suggests:
ii bash-completion 1:2.1-4.3
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 3.0.32
Quoting Russ Allbery (2017-09-15 20:25:32)
> Dominique Dumont <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > $ head -15 3rdparty/libatomic_ops/src/atomic_ops/sysdeps/gcc/mips.h
> > /*
> > * Copyright (c) 2005,2007 Thiemo Seufer <[email protected]>
> > *
> > * THIS MATERIAL IS PROVIDED AS IS, WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY EXPRESSED
> > * OR IMPLIED. ANY USE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK.
> > *
> > * Permission is hereby granted to use or copy this program
> > * for any purpose, provided the above notices are retained on all copies.
> > * Permission to modify the code and to distribute modified code is granted,
> > * provided the above notices are retained, and a notice that the code was
> > * modified is included with the above copyright notice.
> > */
> > $ licensecheck 3rdparty/libatomic_ops/src/atomic_ops/sysdeps/gcc/mips.h
> > 3rdparty/libatomic_ops/src/atomic_ops/sysdeps/gcc/mips.h: UNKNOWN
>
> > The license from this file is documented on Fedora [1] as a MIT variant.
>
> > Could you update licensecheck regexp to accept this variant ?
Done: This license (Boehm GC License) is covered since licensecheck 3.0.32.
Thanks for reporting!
> This is not an MIT license variant. It requires a notice be added
> that the code has been modified, which is a substantive requirement
> not present in any MIT licenses variant.
>
> I would consider this a unique and separate license.
Licensecheck (or rather underlying library Regexp::License::License)
classifies above license as an independent license part of a "family" of
licenses which by some (excluding SPDX) is called "MIT". This license
is recognized by some (except SPDX) by the name "Boehm GC License".
Another license in same family is by SPDX and others called "MIT" and by
Debian called "Expat".
I hope that is aligned with both of you and with the Fedora wiki, SPDX,
and Debian. If you disagree then please file a separate bugreport about
that. Thanks a lot!
- Jonas
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