Bug#875899: licensecheck cannot detect MIT variant license

[Russ Allbery]

Dominique Dumont  writes:

> $ head -15 3rdparty/libatomic_ops/src/atomic_ops/sysdeps/gcc/mips.h
> /*
>  * Copyright (c) 2005,2007  Thiemo Seufer 
>  *
>  * THIS MATERIAL IS PROVIDED AS IS, WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY EXPRESSED
>  * OR IMPLIED.  ANY USE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK.
>  *
>  * Permission is hereby granted to use or copy this program
>  * for any purpose,  provided the above notices are retained on all copies.
>  * Permission to modify the code and to distribute modified code is granted,
>  * provided the above notices are retained, and a notice that the code was
>  * modified is included with the above copyright notice.
>  */
> $ licensecheck 3rdparty/libatomic_ops/src/atomic_ops/sysdeps/gcc/mips.h
> 3rdparty/libatomic_ops/src/atomic_ops/sysdeps/gcc/mips.h: UNKNOWN

> The license from this file is documented on Fedora [1] as a MIT variant.

> Could you update licensecheck regexp to accept this variant ?

This is not an MIT license variant.  It requires a notice be added that
the code has been modified, which is a substantive requirement not present
in any MIT licenses variant.

I would consider this a unique and separate license.

-- 
Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)   

Bug#875899: licensecheck cannot detect MIT variant license

[Dominique Dumont]

Package: licensecheck
Version: 3.0.30-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***

$ head -15 3rdparty/libatomic_ops/src/atomic_ops/sysdeps/gcc/mips.h
/*
 * Copyright (c) 2005,2007  Thiemo Seufer 
 *
 * THIS MATERIAL IS PROVIDED AS IS, WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY EXPRESSED
 * OR IMPLIED.  ANY USE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK.
 *
 * Permission is hereby granted to use or copy this program
 * for any purpose,  provided the above notices are retained on all copies.
 * Permission to modify the code and to distribute modified code is granted,
 * provided the above notices are retained, and a notice that the code was
 * modified is included with the above copyright notice.
 */
$ licensecheck 3rdparty/libatomic_ops/src/atomic_ops/sysdeps/gcc/mips.h
3rdparty/libatomic_ops/src/atomic_ops/sysdeps/gcc/mips.h: UNKNOWN

The license from this file is documented on Fedora [1] as a MIT variant.

Could you update licensecheck regexp to accept this variant ?

All the best

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:MIT



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Versions of packages licensecheck depends on:
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ii  libmoo-perl2.003002-1
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ii  perl   5.26.0-8
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licensecheck recommends no packages.

Versions of packages licensecheck suggests:
ii  bash-completion  1:2.1-4.3

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