Copyright includes SPDX Tag "SPDX-FileCopyrightText"

[soimkim]

Description

When scanning the SPDX format copyright text, the SPDX tag, "SPDX-FileCopyrightText", is also output.

• SPDX copyright text format example : https://spdx.github.io/spdx-spec/appendix-IX-file-tags/

How To Reproduce

• File to scan

#
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright 2019-2021 Test Inc.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (c) SOIM
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0

import os
...

• ScanCode result

"copyrights": [
        {
          "value": "Copyright 2019-2021 Test Inc. SPDX-FileCopyrightText",
          "start_line": 2,
          "end_line": 4
        },
        {
          "value": "Copyright (c) SOIM",
          "start_line": 2,
          "end_line": 4
        }
      ],

• Expected result

"copyrights": [
        {
          "value": "Copyright 2019-2021 Test Inc.",
          "start_line": 2,
          "end_line": 4
        },
        {
          "value": "Copyright (c) SOIM",
          "start_line": 2,
          "end_line": 4
        }
      ],

System configuration

For bug reports, it really helps us to know:

• What OS are you running on? Ubuntu 18.04
• What version of scancode-toolkit was used to generate the scan file? scancode-toolkit==21.2.25
• What installation method was used to install/run scancode? pip

[pombredanne]

@soimkim Thank you for the report!
It could be that this is already fixed in the develop branch

$ cat c
#
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright 2019-2021 Test Inc.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (c) SOIM
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0

$ scancode -c --yaml - c
Setup plugins...
Collect file inventory...
Scan files for: copyrights with 1 process(es)...
[####################] 2           
headers:
    -   tool_name: scancode-toolkit
        tool_version: 30.0.0
        options:
            input:
                - c
            --copyright: yes
            --yaml: '-'
        notice: |
            Generated with ScanCode and provided on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES
            OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. No content created from
            ScanCode should be considered or used as legal advice. Consult an Attorney
            for any legal advice.
            ScanCode is a free software code scanning tool from nexB Inc. and others.
            Visit https://github.com/nexB/scancode-toolkit/ for support and download.
        start_timestamp: '2021-09-16T224441.718571'
        end_timestamp: '2021-09-16T224441.830953'
        output_format_version: 1.0.0
        duration: '0.11241006851196289'
        message:
        errors: []
        extra_data:
            spdx_license_list_version: '3.14'
            files_count: 1
files:
    -   path: c
        type: file
        copyrights:
            -   value: Copyright 2019-2021 Test Inc.
                start_line: 2
                end_line: 2
            -   value: Copyright (c) SOIM
                start_line: 3
                end_line: 3
        holders:
            -   value: Test Inc.
                start_line: 2
                end_line: 2
            -   value: SOIM
                start_line: 3
                end_line: 3
        authors: []
        scan_errors: []

[pombredanne]

Closing now. Thanks!

[soimkim]

@pombredanne , Thank you for the reply. 😃