[bug-gettext] [bug #55733] The scancode program does not grok "This file is distributed under the same license as ..."

[Bruno Haible]

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                 Summary: The scancode program does not grok "This file is
distributed under the same license as ..."
                 Project: GNU gettext
            Submitted by: haible
            Submitted on: Mon 18 Feb 2019 12:57:42 AM CET
                Category: Programmer tools
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: haible
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

Reported in https://github.com/nexB/scancode-toolkit/issues/1379 :

this kind of hard to dereference
[statement](https://git.zx2c4.com/linux/plain/tools/power/cpupower/po/de.po):
`# This file is distributed under the same license as the cpufrequtils
package.`

The culprit code is there:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gettext.git/tree/gettext-tools/src/xgettext.c#n1907

@ueno @bhaible this is a source of less accurate license detection for
scancode and a lot of noise and there are 100K+ examples of such license
reference out there... I might be able to deal with it somehow. But may be
there would be a way to fix it upstream in gettext proper to avoid propagating
weak and inconclusive licensing statements in the future? that would be really
nice!




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