Package: lintian Severity: wishlist Creative Commons licenses have short human-friendly summaries, such as this for CC-BY 4.0:
You are free to: Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially. However, this is not the actual license text. On the relevant web page for this particular license (<https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>), it is prefigured by "This is a human-readable summary of (and not a substitute for) the license" and a longer disclaimer in a tool-tip. The actual license text is <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode> (links to plain texts are here <https://creativecommons.org/2014/01/07/plaintext-versions-of-creative-commons-4-0-licenses/>) I stumbled across at least one package that has put the license summary text into debian/copyright instead of the proper text (#903045). It occurred to me that a lintian test could potentially catch this problem. I'm not sure how prevalent this error is, which I suppose would be the next thing to calculate. I personally would like to see the need for reproducing all of the CC license text in copyright files removed, but that isn't looking too likely (see #795402). -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.4 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (600, 'unstable'), (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.15.12-x86_64-linode105 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.28-5 ii bzip2 1.0.6-8.1 ii diffstat 1.61-1+b1 ii dpkg 1.18.24 ii file 1:5.30-1+deb9u1 pn gettext <none> pn intltool-debian <none> pn libapt-pkg-perl <none> pn libarchive-zip-perl <none> pn libclass-accessor-perl <none> pn libclone-perl <none> ii libdpkg-perl 1.18.24 pn libemail-valid-perl <none> pn libfile-basedir-perl <none> pn libipc-run-perl <none> ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b1 pn libparse-debianchangelog-perl <none> ii libperl5.24 [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.24.1-3+deb9u4 pn libtext-levenshtein-perl <none> ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2 ii liburi-perl 1.71-1 ii libxml-simple-perl 2.22-1 ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.63-2 ii man-db 2.7.6.1-2 pn patchutils <none> ii perl 5.24.1-3+deb9u4 pn t1utils <none> ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.2+b1 Versions of packages lintian recommends: ii dpkg 1.18.24 pn libperlio-gzip-perl <none> ii perl 5.24.1-3+deb9u4 ii perl-modules-5.24 [libautodie-perl] 5.24.1-3+deb9u4 Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> ii dpkg-dev 1.18.24 ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-3 pn libtext-template-perl <none>