Package: lintian Version: 2.5.3 Severity: normal Currently the tag "missing-license-text-in-dep5-copyright" is emitted when the copyright file looks like this:
---- Files: * Copyright: yyyy-yyyy etc License: MPL-1.1 or GPL-2+ or LGPL-2.1+ License: MPL-1.1 etc License: GPL-2 etc License: LGPL-2.1 etc ---- This is unnecessarily strict, because it means we need to have separate paragraphs for both GPL-2 and GPL-2+ licensed portions of the code. This is also inconsistent with the practise of splitting out (A or B) into separate license paragraphs, with "choose at your discretion" being implied - since "Xn+" means the same as (Xn or Xn+1 or Xn+2 or ...). -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.21.90.20111004-2 ii bzip2 1.0.5-7 ii diffstat 1.54-1 ii file 5.08-1 ii gettext 0.18.1.1-5 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.24+b2 ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 ii libdpkg-perl 1.16.1 ii libemail-valid-perl 0.185-1 ii libipc-run-perl 0.90-1 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-1 ii libtimedate-perl 1.2000-1 ii liburi-perl 1.59-1 ii locales 2.13-21 ii man-db 2.6.0.2-2 ii patchutils 0.3.2-1 ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.12.4-4 ii unzip 6.0-5 lintian recommends no packages. Versions of packages lintian suggests: ii binutils-multiarch <none> ii dpkg-dev 1.16.1 ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.68-1+b1 ii libtext-template-perl <none> ii man-db 2.6.0.2-2 ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20110809-2 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
