Russ Allbery wrote: > Evgeni Golov writes: > >> currently lintian will tag a source with >> copyright-refers-to-versionless-license-file when one refers to a >> license symlink and lintian can't find \b(any|or)\s+later(\s+version)?\b >> in the copyright file. >> >> That is imho wrong, esp with the new copyright format: >> Files: foo >> Copyright: bar >> License: GPL-2+ >> That says foo is licensed under gpl v2 or later. >> >> The attached patch against git solves the issue for me. > > I suspect there's still arguably a bug in such a package, since this would > imply that the upstream license statement wasn't cut and pasted into the > debian/copyright file, as is recommended best practice even with the new > copyright format. If it were, that phrase would still be there.
Exactly. "License: GPL-2+" isn't a replacement of license statement as it has no meaning. IANAL but I would say it doesn't mean anything, just like "(C)" is not considered to mean "Copyright". > > However, if so, that's really a separate issue and this tag isn't the > right one to apply. So this patch looks good to me. I'll go ahead and > apply it. > Yes, and a new check should be implemented. Cheers, -- Raphael Geissert - Debian Maintainer www.debian.org - get.debian.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org