Quoting Gert Wollny (2018-03-02 19:02:44) > Am Freitag, den 02.03.2018, 17:49 +0100 schrieb Philip Hands: > > Gert Wollny <gw.foss...@gmail.com> writes: > > > > > Am Freitag, den 02.03.2018, 14:01 +0100 schrieb Iustin Pop: > > > > > > > > How do you (we) know the package indeed is DFSG-compliant, if > > > > there is no license information? If upstream cannot bother to > > > > provide headers, how do we know the code is indeed licenced > > > > under the claimed licence? > > > > Etc. > > > > Note: I haven't looked at the package. Maybe I misunderstand the > > > > situation… > > > > > > The information is all there big parts of it just can't be > > > automatically extracted (mostly the copyright information), > > > > Would you be so kind as to cite some examples of copyright > > information that is there but not automatically extractable, just so > > that we can get an idea of what you have in mind? > > Sspecifically in vtk7 there are two main issues, one is that in nearly > all files the main copyright header is > > Copyright (c) Ken Martin, Will Schroeder, Bill Lorensen > All rights reserved. > See Copyright.txt or http://www.kitware.com/Copyright.htm for > details. > > This software is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even > the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A ARTICULAR > PURPOSE. See the above copyright notice for more information. > > Which means licensecheck will report an unknown license, and one has > to check what is actually written in these files. Copyright.txt is > then simply a BSD-3 clause license, but obviously one has to check. > > The second issue is that there are often two or more distinct > copyright notices in different blocks with different statements, think > variations of: > > Copyright 2008 Sandia Corporation. > Under the terms of Contract DE-AC04-94AL85000 with Sandia Corporation, > the U.S. Government retains certain rights in this software. > > Copyright (c) Ken Martin, Will Schroeder, Bill Lorensen > All rights reserved. > See Copyright.txt or http://www.kitware.com/Copyright.htm for details. > > Another licenses that is not recognized is > > Copyright 2008 Sandia Corporation. > Under the terms of Contract DE-AC04-94AL85000, there is a non- > exclusive license for use of this work by or on behalf of the > U.S. Government. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, > with or without modification, are permitted provided that this Notice > and any statement of authorship are reproduced on all copies.
Thanks for elaborating. Please consider filing bugreports against licensecheck. I can be slow to respond to them, but dearly appreciate examples of challenging cases. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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