Re: lintian_copyright-without-license-notice
Raphael Geissert wrote:
> 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.
Ping.
>
> Cheers,
Cheers,
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