Bug#743532: lintian: when to say: old-fsf-address-in-copyright-file
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.22.1
Severity: normal
Please do not make lintian report this warning of
W: old-fsf-address-in-copyright-file
if the license synopsis line has "with incorrect FSF address".
Here is an example. Lintian reports as:
W: ... old-fsf-address-in-copyright-file
for debian/copyright containing the following.
Files: m4/intltool.m4
Copyright: 2001 Eazel, Inc.
License: GPL-2.0+ with incorrect FSF address, and with autoconf exception
This program 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.
.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
General Public License for more details.
.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
.
As a special exception to the GNU General Public License, if you
distribute this file as part of a program that contains a
configuration script generated by Autoconf, you may include it under
the same distribution terms that you use for the rest of that program.
.
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License
Version 2 can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'.
----
For me copying "license" text including some associated disclaimer
exactly from the original source seems to be the right thing to do.
Also, I clearly mark "with incorrect FSF address" in the license
synopsis line.
I think lintian should not issue this warning if it is properly
documented in the license synopsis line.
FYI: This debian/copyright is autogenerated here using debmake packaging
helper script. So "with incorrect FSF address" is always spelled
exactly the same way. I am hoping people to use this dh-make alternative
so DEP-5 is easily implemented and -dbg packages are easily made.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.24-5
ii bzip2 1.0.6-5
ii diffstat 1.58-1
ii file 1:5.17-1
ii gettext 0.18.3.2-1
ii hardening-includes 2.5
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.29+b1
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.37-2
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1
ii libclone-perl 0.36-1
ii libdpkg-perl 1.17.6
ii libemail-valid-perl 1.192-1
ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.03-1
ii libipc-run-perl 0.92-1
ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.33-2
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-1
ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.06~01-2
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-1
ii liburi-perl 1.60-1
ii man-db 2.6.6-1
ii patchutils 0.3.2-3
ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.18.2-2+b1
ii t1utils 1.37-2
Versions of packages lintian recommends:
ii libautodie-perl 2.24-1
ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.18-2
ii perl-modules [libautodie-perl] 5.18.2-2
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none>
ii dpkg-dev 1.17.6
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.71-1+b1
ii libtext-template-perl 1.46-1
ii libyaml-perl 0.84-1
ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2
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