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Bug#893326: lintian: check that patch licenses are compatible with licenses of files they modify



On Sun, 2018-03-18 at 01:50 +0000, Chris Lamb wrote:

> I am unsure that a debian/ directory plus the upstream source really
> creates a derived work.

It definitely does when there are patches to the upstream code in
debian/, which is the case I'm talking about with this feature request.

> A link to a few concrete offending cases would therefore be helpful
> at this point.

I don't have any at this point because I wanted to use lintian to
discover instances of this problem :)

I often see sponsors on debian-mentors asking people to use the same
license as upstream, most of the time it is GPL for debian/ and
permissive licenses for upstream, but that is a subject for another
feature request though.

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

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