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ScanCode incorrectly identifies BSD-3-Clause text as proprietary license #3039

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richardfontana opened this issue Aug 4, 2022 · 3 comments
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ScanCode incorrectly identifies BSD-3-Clause text as proprietary license #3039

richardfontana opened this issue Aug 4, 2022 · 3 comments
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richardfontana commented Aug 4, 2022 •
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I ran ScanCode 31.0.0rc1 on the Fedora source package for webkit2gtk3-2.36.5. The license text in one file, which appears to be identical or substantially identical to this Webkit source file:
https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/blob/main/Source/cmake/DetectSSE2.cmake
was incorrectly identified as "proprietary-license" by ScanCode, with the score 90.99, for reasons that are unclear to me.
The "matched-rule" is "proprietary-license_501.RULE".

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  • What OS are you running on? (Windows/MacOS/Linux) Linux
  • What version of scancode-toolkit was used to generate the scan file? 31.0.0rc1
  • What installation method was used to install/run scancode? (pip/source download/other)
    I used the Linux release archive for the stated version of scancode-toolkit.
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@richardfontana Thank you ++ for the report!

pombredanne added a commit that referenced this issue Aug 4, 2022
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Report proprietary license if key phrase #3039
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This key phrase should be present
"Every use of the source code or binary form of the software should
acknowledge the publication."

Reported-by: Richard Fontana <rfontana@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
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See #3041 for a likely fix

pombredanne added a commit that referenced this issue Aug 4, 2022
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Merge pull request #3041 from nexB/3039-bsd-not-proprietary-license
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Report proprietary license only if key phrase present
 #3039
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@richardfontana this fix works and has been merged and will be in the next release.
Thanks!

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