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Changes for version v3.1.90 - 2018-03-29

  • Bug Fixes
    • Fix object cecill_b subject pattern license.
    • Fix object fsfullr to match grant at all.
    • Fix relax object mit_new_materials to match license at all.
    • Fix strip duplicate tagline for object ntp, accidentally suppressing tag family:mit.
    • Tighten objects qpl sgi_b: Avoid bogusly match optional trailing FSF credit.
  • Documentation
    • Add TODO file to source, with a bunch of ideas.
  • Test Suite
    • Extend testsuite to cover most license patterns.
  • Other
    • Added: Add object json.
    • Added: Add object kevlin_henney (replacing recently added but broken isc_minidiscl).
    • Added: Add objects bsl bsl_1.
    • Added: Add objects jython python_2.
    • Added: Extend object cc_cc0: Add subject pattern grant.
    • Added: Extend object ftl: Add subject pattern license.
    • Added: Extend objects ms_pl ms_rl: Add subject pattern license.
    • Added: Generate default pattern dynamically, and provide alternative subject patterns statically as plaintext (also for non-Perl use). Drop alternative flavor pattern artifact.
    • Added: Implement DefHash option "subject".
    • Added: Synthesize metadata caption, and subject pattern grant.
    • Added: Synthesize metadata iri, and subject pattern iri.
    • Added: Synthesize subject pattern license.
    • Extend metadata: Add iri.
    • Extend object public_domain: Improve subject pattern license.
    • Fix and extend metadata: Consistently use "name" for license shortname (i.e. single-word), "caption" for license name, and "summary" for non-name short description.
    • Fix metadata for objects cecill_b cecill_c: Use tag type:versioned:decimal (not type:unversioned).
    • Implement per-object default pattern.
    • Relax license objects agpl beerware gpl lgpl public_domain qpl: Detect uppercase variations.
    • Relax object bsd_3_clause to match SPDX template.
    • Stringify patterns (as preparation for central compilation).
    • Synthesize metadata name.
    • Synthesize subject pattern trait.
    • Tighten object openssl to differentiate from apache_1.
    • Tighten object eurosym: Avoid wildcard.
    • Tighten object postgresql: Limit to lowercase pattern (uppercase or varying case seemingly unused).
    • Tighten objects ntp ntp_disclaimer: Disambiguate from kevlin_henney.
    • Uniformly detect copyright sign.
    • Uniformly detect hyphens.
    • Uniformly detect quotation marks.
    • Uniformly detect sentence and paragraph endings.
    • Uniformly detect sentence enumerators.

Modules

Regular expressions for legal licenses
Regular expressions for licensing sub-parts