Jeremy Stanley <fu...@yuggoth.org> writes: > I'm surprised, for example, by the absence of the ISC license given that > not only ISC's software but much of that originating from the OpenBSD > ecosystem uses it. My personal software projects also use the ISC > license. Are you aggregating the "License:" field in copyright files > too, or is it really simply a hard-coded list of matching patterns?
It's only a hard-coded list of matching patterns, and it doesn't match any of the short licenses because historically I wasn't considering them (with the exception of common-licenses references to the BSD license, which I kind of would like to make an RC bug and clean up so that we could remove the BSD license from common-licenses on the grounds that it's specific to only the University of California and confuses people). If we go with any sort of threshold, the script will need serious improvements. That was something else I wanted to ask: I've invested all of a couple of hours in this script, and would be happy to throw it away in favor of something that tries to do a more proper job of classifying the licenses referenced in debian/copyright. Has someone already done this (Jonas, perhaps)? -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
