I filed a defect http://www.fossology.org/issues/6597, and fixed in git bee078 ,will update tests later if this fix is make sense. If possible, please help to apply this fix to test, thanks.
-Larry From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gobeille, Robert Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2014 12:30 AM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [FOSSology] Bug - source code statement switch(c) - reported as Copyright info Hi Kotrappa, It is very common for people to use '(c)' in a copyright statement, so that's why fossology flags this as a possible copyright. Of course, in this case it is a false positive. Fossology tends to error on the side of reporting possible copyrights (and licenses) rather than risk missing them. This is a fossology issue, not spdx. Thanks, Bob Gobeille On Feb 26, 2014, at 2:16 AM, <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi Bob, Matt We have installed Fossology 2.4.0 + SPDX 1.0 module. We scanned some of internal source code and tried to get .sdpx results by following command wget -qO - --no-check-certificate --post-file=./imp_onoff.zip --timeout=0 "http://localhost/repo/?mod=spdx_license_once&noCopyright=false&jsonOutput=false&fullSPDXFlag=true&packageNameInLog=imp_onoff.zip"; > imp_onoff.spdx We found part of source code where switch(c) is available Fossology+SPDX module reported this part of source code as Copyright Info. Please find results of scan as below. FileName: setVariant.cpp FileType: SOURCE FileChecksum: SHA1: 5fbc973c8761ebd6b923010284408be700d6499d LicenseConcluded: NOASSERTION LicenseInfoInFile: LicenseRef-1 FileCopyrightText: <text>(c) copyright 2011 * company harman/becker automotive systems gmbh author simon ziehme * * @brief to set varints to starter (c) { case 'm' : para_m = 1; strcpy(cdefaultmarketcode, optarg); http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/power_of_two#fast_algorithm_to_check_if_a_positive_number_is_a_power_of_two</text>
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