Re: Debian and the Vinay Sajip License
On 07/09/14 14:51, Johannes Schauer wrote:
> 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]*" ".
Yes, but this isn't a license name; it is within the text of the license.
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