Bug#828830: ITP: licensecheck -- simple license checker for source files

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>]

Hi,

On 28/06/16 10:39, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
> 
> * Package name    : licensecheck
>   Version         : 3.0.0
>   Upstream Author : Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>
> * URL             : https://metacpan.org/pod/App::Licensecheck
> * License         : GPL-3+
>   Programming Lang: Perl
>   Description     : simple license checker for source files
>  Licensecheck attempts to determine the license that applies to each
>  file passed to it, by searching the start of the file for text
>  belonging to various licenses.
> 
> This is the licensecheck script from devsripts, refactored and extended.
> 
> Upstream code will be maintained in build-common team, and packaging
> in the Perl team.

What's the reason to fork / split this?

Cheers,
Emilio