Copyright statement with a year range ending in the word "NOW" not detected at all

[sschuberth]

Description

A copyright statement like

Copyright (c) 2013-NOW Jinzhu <wosmvp@gmail.com>

is not detected at all. If the "-NOW" part is removed from the year range, the copyright is detected.

How To Reproduce

Run

LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 scancode --copyright --json-pp - LICENSE

on https://github.com/jinzhu/configor/blob/f7a0fc7c9fc697269b1749c1cc472d49baa8d33c/LICENSE#L3.

System configuration

• What OS are you running on? Fedora Linux
• What version of scancode-toolkit was used to generate the scan file? 32.5.0
• What installation method was used to install/run scancode? RPM

[hesa]

@silverhook , any thoughts on a copyright range ending with ǸOW`?

IANAL
.. a pragmatic take, since year - NOW does not make sense because you get (c) when you create your work and not when (NOW) someone looks at your (c) statement, so

• perhaps allow sth like [0-9]* - [a-zA-Z0-9]* (or even wider) when identifying (c) statements - even though the last part of it (IMO) does not make sense

@sschuberth , have you seen anything similar somewhere else?
/IANAL