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Bug#420077: lintian: Lintian confuses Affero General Public License with GPL



Jan-Pascal van Best <janpascal@vanbest.org> writes:

> Package: lintian
> Version: 1.23.29
> Severity: normal

> When using Lintian on a package (under development) under the Affero
> general public license (AGPL), Lintian complains that the
> debian/copyright file should refer to the GPL in
> /usr/share/common-licenses instead:
> E: uccass: copyright-should-refer-to-common-license-file-for-gpl
> The AGPL differs from the GPL only in that it adds a section 2(c), but
> it is a different license.

Could you send a copy of the exact text of this license as it appears in
your copyright file so that I can see what string in the license I should
use to recognize it?

Thanks!

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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