From 991b362d9dcdca95aebc588c60cd00a2322cf7de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pawel Hajdan, Jr Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 16:48:43 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Recognize Microsoft Permissive License (Ms-PL) Note that according to FSF this is a free software license, just incompatible with GPL: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#ms-pl It's also OSI-approved: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical Signed-off-by: Pawel Hajdan, Jr --- scripts/licensecheck.pl | 4 ++++ 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/licensecheck.pl b/scripts/licensecheck.pl index 461de28..ad61826 100755 --- a/scripts/licensecheck.pl +++ b/scripts/licensecheck.pl @@ -505,6 +505,10 @@ sub parselicense($) { $license = "CDDL " . ($1 ? "(v$2) " : '') . $license; } + if ($licensetext =~ /Microsoft Permissive License \(Ms-PL\)/) { + $license = "Ms-PL $license"; + } + if ($licensetext =~ /Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person or organization obtaining a copy of the software and accompanying documentation covered by this license \(the \"Software\"\)/ or $licensetext =~ /Boost Software License([ ,-]+Version ([^ ]+)?(\.))/i) { $license = "BSL " . ($1 ? "(v$2) " : '') . $license; -- 1.7.4.4