Bug#420077: lintian: Lintian confuses Affero General Public License with GPL

[Russ Allbery]

Jan-Pascal van Best [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Package: lintian
 Version: 1.23.29
 Severity: normal

 When using Lintian on a package (under development) under the Affero
 general public license (AGPL), Lintian complains that the
 debian/copyright file should refer to the GPL in
 /usr/share/common-licenses instead:
 E: uccass: copyright-should-refer-to-common-license-file-for-gpl
 The AGPL differs from the GPL only in that it adds a section 2(c), but
 it is a different license.

Could you send a copy of the exact text of this license as it appears in
your copyright file so that I can see what string in the license I should
use to recognize it?

Thanks!

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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])   http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/


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Bug#420077: lintian: Lintian confuses Affero General Public License with GPL

[Jan-Pascal van Best]

Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.29
Severity: normal

When using Lintian on a package (under development) under the Affero general
public license (AGPL), Lintian complains that the debian/copyright file should
refer to the GPL in /usr/share/common-licenses instead:
E: uccass: copyright-should-refer-to-common-license-file-for-gpl
The AGPL differs from the GPL only in that it adds a section 2(c), but it is a
different license.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (300, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils   2.17-3The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  diffstat   1.43-2produces graph of changes introduc
ii  dpkg-dev   1.13.25   package building tools for Debian
ii  file   4.17-5etch1   Determines file type using magic
ii  gettext0.16.1-1  GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  intltool-debian0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii  libparse-debianchangel 1.0-1 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii  man-db 2.4.3-6   The on-line manual pager
ii  perl [libdigest-md5-pe 5.8.8-7   Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

lintian recommends no packages.

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