Bug#906284: lintian: check for incomplete-creative-commons-license gives false positives: the "not a law firm" is a preamble, not a license
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.96
Severity: normal
The test for the human-readable rather than legal text of the Creative
Commons licenses seems to fail, because the preamble about Creative
Commons not being a law firm is not part of the license text, and
neither is the postamble about Creative Commons not being a party to
the license agreement; they are instead form the terms and conditions
between Creative Commons and the person using a CC license. So I
cannot see why these parts should necessarily be included in the
Debian copyright file. Has there been a policy decision to require
this, perhaps?
Also, it seems that this check would be better in the parse_license
function when checking each license block rather than the run
function, as there might be more than one CC license in a copyright
file, and it is feasible that one is correct and one not.
Best wishes,
Julian
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers stretch
APT policy: (500, 'stretch'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.31.1-2
ii bzip2 1.0.6-8.1
ii diffstat 1.61-1+b1
ii dpkg 1.19.0.5+b1
ii file 1:5.34-2
ii gettext 0.19.8.1-6+b1
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.4
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.34
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.60-1
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.51-1
ii libclone-perl 0.39-1
ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.0.5
ii libemail-valid-perl 1.202-1
ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.08-1
ii libipc-run-perl 20180523.0-1
ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b3
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-12
ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2
ii liburi-perl 1.74-1
ii libxml-simple-perl 2.25-1
ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.72+repack-1
ii man-db 2.8.4-2
ii patchutils 0.3.4-2
ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.26.2-7
ii t1utils 1.41-2
ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.3
Versions of packages lintian recommends:
ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.19-1+b4
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none>
ii dpkg-dev 1.19.0.5
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-3+b2
ii libtext-template-perl 1.53-1
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