I went back and looked at the compare code and the equivalence of the copyright symbol and (C) was missing. I just added it. Next time I update the tool it should be fixed.
Thanks for the analysis! Gary > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Fontana [mailto:rfont...@redhat.com] > Sent: Friday, August 4, 2017 11:53 AM > To: W. Trevor King > Cc: g...@sourceauditor.com; 'SPDX-legal' > Subject: Re: License checking tool available > > On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 11:44:45AM -0700, W. Trevor King wrote: > [...] > > The only difference that turned up in the license text is: > > > > Copyright [-C-]{+(C)+} 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > > > > Our guideline for equating copyright symbols includes (c) but not (C) > > [2]. Maybe that's what's going on? > > Is that intentional? I hadn't noticed it before but that's a fairly clear > deficiency in the matching guidelines. "(C)" is probably the most common > attempt at something like a copyright symbol in copyright/license notices in > source files. I think it is much more common than "(c)" (or the real copyright > symbol). > > Richard _______________________________________________ Spdx-legal mailing list Spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org https://lists.spdx.org/mailman/listinfo/spdx-legal
