Bug#497347: lintian: warn about incomplete copyright sentences
Raphael Geissert <atomo64@gmail.com> writes:
>> The Debian packaging is (C) 2008, John Doe <john@mail.org> and
>> is licensed under the GPL, see above.
>
> The above example should either say:
> > ...is Copyright (C) 2008...
> The '(C)' part being optional, or
> > ...is © 2008...
Lintian already does catch this if there's no copyright statement at all
and I think does as well as is reasonably possible without way too many
false positives.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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