Multiline copyright missing from license file

[vw-anton]

Description

We found a package where author/copyright information is missing from a license file. It looks like only the first author of a list is represented in the scan result.

How To Reproduce

https://github.com/formidablelabs/victory.git commit dd86278d205f3f306e2ab38c317a6f9c56f0a6f8

Copyrights found:

 copyrights:
      - statement: "Copyright (c) 2014-present, Facebook, Inc."
        location:
          path: "packages/victory-core/src/victory-util/immutable-types.d.ts"
          start_line: 2
          end_line: 2
      - statement: "Copyright (c) 2015-2020 Formidable Labs"
        location:
          path: "LICENSE.txt"
          start_line: 3
          end_line: 3
      - statement: "Copyright (c) 2016-2020 Alexey Svetliakov <https://github.com/asvetliakov>"
        location:
          path: "LICENSE.txt"
          start_line: 5
          end_line: 5

However in the LICENSE.txt file we can see:

Copyright (c) 2016-2020 Alexey Svetliakov <https://github.com/asvetliakov>,
snerks <https://github.com/snerks>, Krzysztof Cebula <https://github.com
Havret>, Vitaliy Polyanskiy <https://github.com/alreadyExisted>, James Lismore
<https://github.com/jlismore>, Stack Builders <https://github.com
stackbuilders>, Esteban Ibarra <https://github.com/ibarrae>, Dominic Lee
<https://github.com/dominictwlee>, Dave Vedder <https://github.com
veddermatic>, Alec Flett <https://github.com/alecf> and potentially other
DefinitelyTyped contributors.

System configuration

For bug reports, it really helps us to know:

• What OS are you running on? (Windows/MacOS/Linux)
  • Linux
• What version of scancode-toolkit was used to generate the scan file?
  • 32.1.0
• What installation method was used to install/run scancode? (pip/source download/other)
  • Python (via ORT 22.5.0)

[pombredanne]

Good catch! FWIW the file at https://github.com/FormidableLabs/victory/blob/main/LICENSE.txt is problematic in multiple ways:

• URLs are truncated and are missing slashes meaning they are no longer detectable as proper full URLs.
• the result of the URL split means that we have random org names instead of proper detectable words
• the trailing " and potentially other DefinitelyTyped contributors." is at best artistic and not something that makes sense
• In addition to this, the MIT license text has been reordered and is no longer an MIT, nut an MIT0 with the main clause moved after the disclaimer.

See https://github.com/FormidableLabs/victory/commit/591fba68afdee05d1a86a5c23baa7613a4deff41

[vw-anton]

So how to proceed on that?

[vw-anton]

@pombredanne Any comment?