Package: devscripts
Version: *
Severity: normal
Here are the license notices that will be in CGAL-4.0 (http://www.cgal.org/):
// Copyright (c) 2005 INRIA Sophia-Antipolis (France).
// All rights reserved.
//
// This file is part of CGAL (www.cgal.org).
// You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU
// General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation,
// either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
//
// Licensees holding a valid commercial license may use this file in
// accordance with the commercial license agreement provided with the software.
//
// This file is provided AS IS with NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING THE
// WARRANTY OF DESIGN, MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
//
// Copyright (c) 1999
// Utrecht University (The Netherlands),
// ETH Zurich (Switzerland),
// INRIA Sophia-Antipolis (France),
// Max-Planck-Institute Saarbruecken (Germany),
// and Tel-Aviv University (Israel). All rights reserved.
//
// This file is part of CGAL (www.cgal.org); you can redistribute it and/or
// modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as
// published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License,
// or (at your option) any later version.
//
// Licensees holding a valid commercial license may use this file in
// accordance with the commercial license agreement provided with the software.
//
// This file is provided AS IS with NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING THE
// WARRANTY OF DESIGN, MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
//
The current version of licensecheck does not match those license notice with
(L)GPL, because the wording does not start with "CGAL is free software."
Here is a patch, as attachement.
--
Laurent Rineau, PhD
R&D Engineer at GeometryFactory http://www.geometryfactory.com/
Release Manager of the CGAL Project http://www.cgal.org/
--- /usr/bin/licensecheck 2011-11-12 17:24:28.000000000 +0100
+++ /home/lrineau/CGAL/working_copy/Scripts/developer_scripts/licensecheck 2012-02-09 12:23:00.036607368 +0100
@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@
$license = "GENERATED FILE";
}
- if ($licensetext =~ /is free software.? you can redistribute it and\/or modify it under the terms of the (GNU (Library|Lesser) General Public License|LGPL)/i) {
+ if ($licensetext =~ /(is free software.? )?[Yy]ou can redistribute (it|them) and\/or +modify (it|them) under the terms of the (GNU (Library|Lesser) General Public License|LGPL)/i) {
$license = "LGPL$gplver$extrainfo $license";
}
@@ -418,7 +418,7 @@
$license = "AGPL$gplver$extrainfo $license";
}
- if ($licensetext =~ /is free software.? you (can|may) redistribute it and\/or modify it under the terms of (?:version [^ ]+ (?:\(?only\)? )?of )?the GNU General Public License/i) {
+ if ($licensetext =~ /(is free software.? )?you (can|may) redistribute it and\/or modify it under the terms of (?:version [^ ]+ (?:\(?only\)? )?of )?the GNU General Public License/i) {
$license = "GPL$gplver$extrainfo $license";
}
@@ -433,7 +433,7 @@
if ($licensetext =~ /This file is part of the .*Qt GUI Toolkit. This file may be distributed under the terms of the Q Public License as defined/) {
$license = "QPL (part of Qt) $license";
- } elsif ($licensetext =~ /may be distributed under the terms of the Q Public License as defined/) {
+ } elsif ($licensetext =~ /may (be distributed|redistribute it) under the terms of the Q Public License/) {
$license = "QPL $license";
}
