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Re: Bug#522311: qbittorrent: Linked with OpenSSL, seems to be a GPL violation



Cristian Greco <cristian.debian@gmail.com> writes:

> 2) Why doesn't lintian complain about the exception if the source
> code contains GPL + another different license (this is the case with
> qbittorrent)?

Until we have an agreed machine-parseable ‘debian/copyright’ format,
and until that file is correctly populated with the actual copyright
information, Lintian will be unable to reliably detect such problems
mechanically.

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