Hi Julian, > The test for the human-readable rather than legal text of the Creative > Commons licenses seems to fail, because the preamble about Creative > Commons not being a law firm is not part of the license text, and > neither is the postamble about Creative Commons not being a party to > the license agreement; they are instead form the terms and conditions > between Creative Commons and the person using a CC license. So I > cannot see why these parts should necessarily be included in the > Debian copyright file. Has there been a policy decision to require > this, perhaps? > > Also, it seems that this check would be better in the parse_license > function when checking each license block rather than the run > function, as there might be more than one CC license in a copyright > file, and it is feasible that one is correct and one not.
CC'ing Jonathan Dowland who filed the original request for this in #903470. Could you folks come to some agreement on a good/reliable check? Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk `-