T o n g <mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com> writes: > I need to fix "dep5-copyright-license-name-not-unique" and "missing- > license-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright" for my package. Ref, https:// > lintian.debian.org/maintainer/suntong...@users.sourceforge.net.html#dbab
For reference, the current ‘debian/copyright’ file can be seen in the VCS <URL:https://github.com/suntong/dbab/blob/master/debian/copyright>. > What's wrong? You have given two different long descriptions of the “License” with the short name “BSD-3-clause”, and Lintian helpfully informs you of this with the “dep5-copyright-license-name-not-unique” tag. You should only give the license text used by upstream, once, in one “License” field in that ‘debian/copyright’ file. All other references to the same license should have “License: BSD-3-clause”, with just the short name, no long description. Now, what you're probably trying to do is to record the *grant* of license — that's the text that says something like “You are free to redistribute with or iwthout modifications under the conditions in the BSD 3-clause license”. The grant of license is quite commonly very different in different parts of the work, and you'll want to record the verbatim text in ‘debian/copyright’. But that is not the license text, and so doesn't belong in the “License” field. Unfortunately, the version 1.0 specification for the copyright file doesn't make this very clear; there is no distinct mention of the license grant text, versus the text of the license. I recommend you put the license grant text for each paragraph in a “License-Grant” field for that paragraph. That field isn't defined in the current specification, but is available for our use. For example: Files: * Copyright: 2013-2015 Tong Sun <suntong...@users.sourceforge.net> License: BSD-3-Clause License-Grant: We are the authors and we love you! You are free to redistribute this work under the BSD license in LICENSE.BSD. Files: bin/dbab-svr Copyright: 2013-2015 Tong Sun <suntong...@users.sourceforge.net> Originally wrote by Piet Wintjens, email & date unknown License: BSD-3-Clause I am Piet Wintjens, writing to you from the past; the BSD license is good and I grant you permission to redistribute this work under its conditions. License: BSD-3-Clause Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: . […] You should be seeking *verbatim* text from the copyright holders that explicitly grants license, and record that in the copyright information. I'm recommending the “License-Grant” field for that purpose. -- \ “By instructing students how to learn, unlearn, and relearn, a | `\ powerful new dimension can be added to education.” —Alvin | _o__) Toffler, _Future Shock_, 1970 | Ben Finney