Hi Dominique, Quoting Dominique Dumont (2020-02-04 18:16:47) > The file stdint-msvc2008.h [1] from libuv1 package is reported by > licensecheck as: > > $ licensecheck --copyright include/uv/stdint-msvc2008.h > include/uv/stdint-msvc2008.h: BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License BSD > (unspecified) > [Copyright: 2006-2008 Alexander Chemeris] > > Unfortunately, the header of this file [1] is a BSD-3-Clause license. > > I guess that licensecheck is tripped by the quotes around "AS IS" > which are actually a mashup of back-quotes and quotes: ``AS IS'' > > I've looked at regexp-pattern-license code, and it looks like OPenSSL > can cope with backquote and quotes. BUt I don't know how to apply this > to BSD regexp. > > Could you fix this issue ?
Thanks for an interesting case - albeit differently from what you highlighted... I believe Licensecheck correctly detects the oddly quoted ``AS IS'' (which amusingly enough stems from cp1252 documents wrongly parsed as ISO-8858-1 and then choking when later parsed as UTF-8 (or something along those lines): Licensecheck should look for "0-2 non-spaces, then AS or as, then dash-or-space, then IS or is, then 0-2 non-spaces". What I think is instead the interesting thing here is the licensing clause itself: Third clause of BSD-3-Clause is commonly referred to as the non-endorsement clause, and speaks in negatives: > Neither the name of the <organization> nor the names of its > contributors may [...] Now, the licensing terms in stdint-msvc2008.h sort-of omits the organisation part, but really no - it drops the negations and becomes an endorsement _permission_ which is really a non-clause. Do you agree with my interpretation? - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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