Bug#469106: lintian: False positive for possible-gpl-code-linked-with-openssl
Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:
> Andrew Pollock <apollock@debian.org> writes:
>> 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.
> Unfortunately, I don't know of a good way to detect this case and still
> maintain the check absent a machine-parsable copyright format that
> specifies exactly which files are under which license. (The check was
> specifically requested by Joerg with his ftp-master hat on.) It's a
> tough edge case.
I slept on this one and can't come up with any good solution. I'm going
to add a note to the long description of this tag asking people to use an
override for this case (and for the case where the part of the package
that links with OpenSSL is independent of the part of the package covered
by the GPL).
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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