Package: licensecheck Version: 3.0.39-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
running licensecheck against this [1] upstream repo, the COPYING file is incorrectly detected as LGPL whereas it’s actually GPL. $ licensecheck . | \grep "\./COPYING:" ./COPYING: GNU Lesser General Public License I guess it is because the license preamble mentions: (Some other Free Software Foundation software is covered by the GNU Library General Public License instead.) [1] git://anongit.kde.org/kcalc.git Happy hacking ! -- Aurélien -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing'), (150, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.4.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE= (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages licensecheck depends on: ii libgetopt-long-descriptive-perl 0.104-1 ii liblog-any-adapter-screen-perl 0.140-1 ii liblog-any-perl 1.707-1 ii libmoo-perl 2.003006-1 ii libnamespace-clean-perl 0.27-1 ii libpath-iterator-rule-perl 1.014-1 ii libpath-tiny-perl 0.108-1 ii libpod-constants-perl 0.19-1 ii libre-engine-re2-perl 0.13-4+b1 ii libregexp-pattern-license-perl 3.1.99-1 ii libregexp-pattern-perl 0.2.11-1 ii libscalar-list-utils-perl 1:1.53-1 ii libsort-key-perl 1.33-2+b2 ii libstrictures-perl 2.000006-1 ii libstring-copyright-perl 0.003006-1 ii libstring-escape-perl 2010.002-2 ii libtry-tiny-perl 0.30-1 ii perl 5.30.0-9 ii perl-base [libscalar-list-utils-perl] 5.30.0-9 licensecheck recommends no packages. Versions of packages licensecheck suggests: ii bash-completion 1:2.9-1 -- no debconf information