2-clause BSD license recognized as BSD unspecified

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2-clause BSD license recognized as BSD unspecified #103

Closed lkocman closed 5 months ago

lkocman commented 5 months ago

We can get a bit better at recognizing particular BSD license. See my example Following snippet was recognized as BSD with unspecfied version, while it's clearly stated it's BSD-2-Clause

src/regex/tre*) is Copyright © 2001-2008 Ville Laurikari and licensed   
under a 2-clause BSD license (license text in the source files).

Even the opensource.org calls it "2-Clause BSD License" POPULAR / STRONG COMMUNITY The 2-Clause BSD License SPDX short identifier: BSD-2-Clause

lkocman commented 5 months ago

Closing my bad ... it was another part of the same copyright file ...

kraih commented 5 months ago

You can also browse the license list at https://legaldb.suse.de/licenses to see if there are any patterns with the wrong license name. Moving them around is a very minor change.