Hi all, I've just implemented another check, this time for the copyright file which basically tries to detect the ones that don't provide "any" licence information at all. I've tried to make it as less prone to FPs as possible and even ran lintian on over 16410 packages which are either available at sarge, etch, testing, unstable, or experimental and reviewed some of the packages for which the tag was emitted and so far have not found any false positive [1]. [1] There are some packages that just quote a file found on the orig tarball like (but please note that it is all what they say): "you may copy, modify, and redistribute freely." - evolver_2.30c-1 And there are some gitwares around being matched too: flying, allegro-demo, allegro-demo-data, allegro-examples. I'm proposing a Severity: serious as I believe most, if not all, of those packages have issues that need to be resolved/clarified before they keep being distributed. I'm CC'ing ftpmaster to let them speak up now and make them aware of this new tag that, when added, could be useful to them for NEW and getting some packages already in the archive out. Anyway, the proposed check is attached as a mbox for git-am. PS. as long as a copy of the message is sent to lintian's ML I will read it, so please don't send me a copy on those cases. Cheers, -- Atomo64 - Raphael Please avoid sending me Word, PowerPoint or Excel attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
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