Bug#613604: lintian: [new check] Detect occurrences of "GNU Public License" (without "General")
Package: lintian
Version: 2.4.3
Severity: wishlist
It would be cool if lintian would issue a warning if it finds the terms
"GNU Public License" (instead of GNU General Public License") or "GNU
Lesser Public License" (instead of GNU Lesser General Public License")
in the debian/copyright or elsewhere in the source code or
documentation.
Real life example (at least as of now):
http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/g/gnustep-examples/current/copyright
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable'), (110, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.37-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.20.1-16 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.53-1 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.15.8.10 Debian package development tools
ii file 5.04-5 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.18.1.1-3 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.24+b1 Perl interface to libapt-pkg
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 Perl module that automatically gen
ii libipc-run-perl 0.89-1 Perl module for running processes
ii libparse-debianchangel 1.1.1-2.1 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii libtimedate-perl 1.2000-1 collection of modules to manipulat
ii liburi-perl 1.54-2 module to manipulate and access UR
ii locales 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: National L
ii man-db 2.5.7-8 on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-sha-pe 5.10.1-17 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none> (no description available)
ii libtext-template-perl 1.45-1 Text::Template perl module
ii man-db 2.5.7-8 on-line manual pager
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