On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Adam D.
Barratt<a...@adam-barratt.org.uk> wrote:
>> kar...@olive:~/development/debian/packages/sponsored/nfoview/nfoview-1.6$
>> licensecheck -r tools/*
>> tools/git2cl: GPL (with incorrect FSF address)
>
> What else is in tools/ ? If it's only that file, then it's not missing
> anything:
Yes. single file only.
> -c=regex --check=regex
> Specify a pattern against which filenames will be matched in order
> to
> decide which files to check the license of.
>
> The default includes common source files.
> The name "git2cl" does not match "common source files".
You got it right!
> Actually, I'm assuming that there /is/ only "git2cl" in tools/,
> otherwise the command you quoted still wouldn't have displayed it; see
> #526701 for a discussion as to whether that's a good idea.
>
> In summary, I don't think there's a licensecheck bug here. It's not
> doing what you expected, admittedly, but it is doing what it's
> documented as doing. :)
Ah. Still, I expect that, licensecheck -r * should check each and
every file it encounter :)
Probably, we can down severity to `wishlist'.
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