Debian Bug report logs - #472199
licensecheck: output formats: DEP-5 output is imperfect

Package: licensecheck; Maintainer for licensecheck is Debian Perl Group <[email protected]>; Source for licensecheck is src:licensecheck (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Jan Hauke Rahm <[email protected]>

Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 16:45:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: confirmed

Merged with 595272

Fix blocked by 526701: licensecheck: options: recursive scan should check all files (--check=".*" by default), 545193: licensecheck: options: recursive scan should check all files (--recursive should imply --check=".*"), 828941: licensecheck: source formats: extract strings from binary files with binwalk or hachoir, 828948: licensecheck: source formats: extract strings from binary files with binwalk or hachoir, 837973: licensecheck: source formats: extract metadata from fonts, 960694: licensecheck: file selection: detect and skip binary files by default, 960695: licensecheck: options: profiles other than current "code comments in independent plaintext files", 1040063: licensecheck: source formats: extract metadata from fonts

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Subject: Re: Bug#472199: need a tool to create dep-5 file from source file
From: Jonas Smedegaard <[email protected]>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>, Lars Kruse <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 15 May 2020 14:54:52 +0200
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Control: retitle -1 licensecheck: DEP-5 output is imperfect
Control: block -1 by 828941 837973

Quoting Lars Kruse (2018-05-22 02:17:49)
> currently the following methods for creating a DEP-5 compliant 
> copyright file:
> 
>  debmake -c
>  cme check dpkg-copyright
>  licensecheck -r --merge-licenses --deb-machine .
>
> Thus this wishlist bug can probably be closed.

Let's instead repurpose this bugreport to track making _ideal_ DEP5 
output with licensecheck.

What we have now is this:

  licensecheck -r --merge-licenses --deb-machine --lines 0 .

The plan is to integrate these scripts:

  cdbs:/usr/lib/cdbs/license-miner
  cdbs:/usr/lib/cdbs/licensecheck2dep5

When that's done, we will likely have different opinions on what is 
ideal - how aggressively (and thus slow) licensecheck should scan, and 
how the DEP-5 output should be laid out (e.g. if same-licensed files by 
different authors should be grouped or not).  Hopefully we can identify 
some broad patterns that groups of us can agree on being ideal, and 
licensecheck can offer such "profiles" under a --usage option.


 - Jonas

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