Bug#469106: lintian: False positive for possible-gpl-code-linked-with-openssl
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.28
Severity: normal
Lintian produces a false "possible-gpl-code-linked-with-openssl" warning
for packages that are not GPL licensed, but contain the magic
"/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL" string in their copyright file because
the packaging is GPL licensed.
The debian/copyright file in question is attached.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.17-3 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.43-2 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.13.25 package building tools for Debian
ii file 4.17-5etch3 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.16.1-1 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libparse-debianchangel 1.0-1 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii man-db 2.4.3-6 The on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-md5-pe 5.8.8-7etch1 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
This package was debianized by Andrew Pollock <apollock@debian.org> on
Sun, 02 Mar 2008 21:18:00 -0800.
It was downloaded from http://ftp.isc.org/isc/dhcp/
Upstream Author: Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) <dhcp-users@isc.org>
Copyright: 2004-2007 by Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC")
1995-2003 by Internet Software Consortium
License:
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# Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
# purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
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# THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND ISC DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES
# WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
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# ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES
# WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN
# ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT
# OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
#
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# <info@isc.org>
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The Debian packaging is (C) 2008, Andrew Pollock <apollock@debian.org> and
is licensed under the GPL, see `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'.
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