On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 21:45 +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 21:50 +0100, Jeffrey Ratcliffe wrote: > > Package: devscripts > > Severity: normal > > Version: 2.10.45 > > > > the title says it all ;) > > Well, not quite. :-) [...] > Since licensecheck doesn't claim to be able to detect every possible > license, I'm downgrading this to wishlist.
After looking in to this some more, there turned out to be two separate issues. Firstly, a slightly embarrassing error in a regular expression meant that the default list of files to check didn't include .h files; I've fixed that in SVN. The second is that although ext/lua/lua.h does contain an MIT/X11 style license statement, it begins at line 362 of the file. By default, licensecheck only checks the first 60 lines of each file; this is overrideable using --lines on the command line, or by setting LICENSECHECK_PARSELINES in the configuration files. One of my co-maintainers may disagree, but I'm not convinced that licensecheck should, by default, be reading all the way through each file in order to try and find a license statement. Regards, Adam -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
