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Re: Debian and the Vinay Sajip License



Hi,

Quoting Riley Baird (2014-09-07 05:39:02)
> On 06/09/14 11:34, Paul Wise wrote:
> > On Thu, 2014-09-04 at 08:18 +0200, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
> > 
> >> Paul pleasr open a bug under lintian. Will a source duplicate
> >> pedantic level
> > 
> > I'm not sure there are enough copies to warrant this.
> 
> There are many other licenses that are copies of Vinay's, just with a
> different name substituted in. Perhaps there could be a warning
> whenever something like this is found:
> 
> "the name of "[A-Z]*" "[A-Z]*" "

yesterday, bug #757615 was closed which introduces a tag that warns about
whitespaces in license names in DEP5 copyright files. This tag would highlight
a license name of the pattern "the name of "[A-Z]*" "[A-Z]*" ".

cheers, josch


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