Control: tag -1 confirmed Hi Peter,
Quoting Peter B (2023-09-19 18:34:02) > Files containing short license names such as GPL-3.0+ are reported > as GPL-3 instead of GPL-3+ > > Example is dist/unix/strawberry.spec.in in package strawberry > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/strawberry/-/blob/master/dist/unix/strawberry.spec.in > > This is the only example file I have now, but I have tried editing the file to > use various other short names such as; > > GPL-3+ > GPLv3+ > > The results are the same. The + suffix is not recognised as allowing a later > version of the license. All are reported as GPL-3 Indeed, this is a bug. Not quite sure, but I guess the problem is that licensecheck strips surrounding "noise" too aggressively, before scanning for license shortname - i.e. that the "+" is mistaken as a kind of comment marker or ASCII art - like this: ++++++++++++++++++ +License: GPL-3.0+ ++++++++++++++++++ - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ * Sponsorship: https://ko-fi.com/drjones [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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