Add match for another "MIT/X11 (BSD like) license"

third_party/devscripts/licensecheck.pl

 #!/usr/bin/perl -w
 # This script was originally based on the script of the same name from
 # the KDE SDK (by dfaure@kde.org)
 #
 # This version is
 #   Copyright (C) 2007, 2008 Adam D. Barratt
 #
 # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
@@ skipping 414 matching lines @@
     } elsif ($licensetext =~ /may be distributed under the terms of the Q Public License as defined/) {
         $license = "QPL $license";
     }
 
     if ($licensetext =~ /opensource\.org\/licenses\/mit-license\.php/) {
         $license = "MIT/X11 (BSD like) $license";
     } elsif ($licensetext =~ /Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and(\/or)? associated documentation files \(the (Software|Materials)\), to deal in the (Software|Materials)/) {
         $license = "MIT/X11 (BSD like) $license";
     } elsif ($licensetext =~ /Permission is hereby granted, without written agreement and without license or royalty fees, to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose/) {
         $license = "MIT/X11 (BSD like) $license";
-    }
+    } elsif ($licensetext =~ /Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any purpose without fee is hereby granted/) {

[Paweł Hajdan Jr., 2011/12/02 11:00:53]

Could you please show me the full text of the license? It seems more similar to
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ISC than to MIT license.

See the regexp just below, isn't it very similar to what you want? That seems to
confirm the hypothesis that this is just a different wording of ISC license.

However, "with or without fee" seems to be different from "without fee" only...
Have you consulted open-source-third-party-reviews as said on
http://www.chromium.org/developers/adding-3rd-party-libraries ? IANAL, but
sometimes there are simple things that can make a license non-free.

[GeorgeY, 2011/12/02 17:21:05]

/*
 * The authors of this software are Rob Pike and Ken Thompson.
 *              Copyright (c) 2002 by Lucent Technologies.
 * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
 * purpose without fee is hereby granted, provided that this entire notice
 * is included in all copies of any software which is or includes a copy
 * or modification of this software and in all copies of the supporting
 * documentation for such software.
 * THIS SOFTWARE IS BEING PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
 * WARRANTY.  IN PARTICULAR, NEITHER THE AUTHORS NOR LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES MAKE
ANY
 * REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY OF ANY KIND CONCERNING THE MERCHANTABILITY
 * OF THIS SOFTWARE OR ITS FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
 */

Mark agreed that it is a BSD-like license

+        $license = "MIT/X11 (BSD like) $license";
+        }

[Paweł Hajdan Jr., 2011/12/02 11:00:53]

nit: This (only the last line) should be space-indented iirc.

[GeorgeY, 2011/12/02 17:21:05]

Done.

 
     if ($licensetext  =~ /Permission to use, copy, modify, and(\/or)? distribute this software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided.*copyright notice.*permission notice.*all copies/) {
         $license = "ISC $license";
     }
 
     if ($licensetext =~ /THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED .*AS IS AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY/) {
         if ($licensetext =~ /All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software must display the following/) {
             $license = "BSD (4 clause) $license";
         } elsif ($licensetext =~ /be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software/) {
             $license = "BSD (3 clause) $license";
@@ skipping 92 matching lines @@
     return $license;
 }
 
 sub fatal($) {
     my ($pack,$file,$line);
     ($pack,$file,$line) = caller();
     (my $msg = "$progname: fatal error at line $line:\n@_\n") =~ tr/\0//d;
     $msg =~ s/\n\n$/\n/;
     die $msg;
 }