Hi,

there has quite some time gone without any news in this bug report. I'm
trying again with a new patch.
It uses parts of the previously submitted patches, but differs in some aspects:
 * I wrote it first, and then checked the BTS for patches - my bad ;-).
 * I re-added the file grouping according to license+copyright similarity,
   as IMVHO the removal of this feature defeats the whole purpose
   of automatizing this information retrieval.
 * It parses all licenses (known to licensecheck), irrespective of their
   mentioning in DEP5, as otherwise the previous patch might have missed
   some licenses completely. Non-standardized (as seen from DEP5) license
   abbreviations are still prefixed by "other", for clarity.

It works for me with a real world example, without breaking current
functionality. Of course, there is any arbitrary amount of further polishing
possible, but I think, it would be already worth the addition in the current
state, as it at least helps a bit in the creation of a machine-readable
debian/copyright file. Even with this, there is of course enough work left
to do for the maintainer to get her/his debian/copyright file into shape.

Thanks for consideration!

I am of course very open to any kind of comments!

Best Regards,
Jan

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