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Wrong license determined

I released my most recent project under MPL version 1.1, and added the required notices in my source code. However, when the ohloh system parsed my code, it reported that the license in use was MPL version 1.0. No where is that version mentioned in my code. Could you check the license parser?

xav0989 over 13 years ago

Xavier,

For the moment I am going on the presumption that you are referring to AfroSoft ACL. I retrieved the code from your repo and tested it with a different license scanner and I agree... The license should clearly be detected as MPL 1.1

I'm not sure what the issue is but I'll escalate the question to a more senior programmer who may have some insight into the issue.

Thanks!

ssnow-blackduck over 13 years ago

Xavier,

I'm informed that Ohcount requires this exact phrase to appear: Mozilla Public License 1.1 and that the way that it appears in the PHP files in the repository is more like Mozilla Public License Version{Line Break} * 1.1 This is a rather inflexible method of detection for this particular license and the steps to a fix have been outlined. I expect that the issue will be added to an upcoming sprint. In the meantime, you have identified the license correctly on the project summary page and you COULD re-format the license block in your code to get the proper response from Ohcount.

Thanks for the heads-up!

ssnow-blackduck over 13 years ago

Sorry for not including the name of the project, it skipped my mind. As for the license notice, I was using the official boilerplate provided by Mozilla, available at http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/boilerplate-1.1/. I will probably add the actual text 'Mozilla Public License 1.1' when I add the file-level documentation.

Thanks!

xav0989 over 13 years ago

This project seems to have been removed or renamed on Bitbucket.

Abhay Mujumdar about 13 years ago