Re: dep5-copyright-license-name-not-unique

[Daniel Lintott <daniel@serverb.co.uk>]

Hi Helge,

On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 03:59:31PM +0100, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> For goobox, the list of improper paragraph starts with:
>  (paragraph at line 25)
>  (paragraph at line 66)
>  (paragraph at line 84)
>  (paragraph at line 102)
>  (paragraph at line 128)
>  (paragraph at line 171)
>  (paragraph at line 185)
>  (paragraph at line 201)
>  (paragraph at line 217)
> 
> Looking at debian/copyright yields:
> 25: second use of GPL-2+
> 66: Before third use of GPL-2+
> 84: Before fourth use of GPL-2+
> 102: Before fith use of GPL-2+
> 
> I attached my complete debian/copyright.
> 
> Thanks for any pointers, ideas, mistakes.
> 

You don't need to duplicate the License text multiple times.

You can simply specify the License field for the files covered by the license in question.

For example:

Files: debian/*
Copyright: 2013-2014, Daniel Lintott <daniel@serverb.co.uk>
License: GPL-2.0+

Then specify the license text seperately.

License: GPL-2.0+
 This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 (at your option) any later version.
 [SNIP]

Hope that helps,

Daniel