Bug#642255: lintian does not handle AGPL license
On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 01:17 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> I am working on packaging configshell which is licensed under the AGPL-3
> license.
>
> This license does not seem to be covered by lintian.
How should lintian "cover" it? As it's not in common-licenses, and
isn't considered deprecated or problematic in any of the other ways
which lintian reports issues in licenses there doesn't seem to be
anything to cover.
> I get the following error when running lintian.
>
> E: python-configshell: copyright-should-refer-to-common-license-file-for-gpl
This, otoh, is indeed a false positive. My suspicion is that it's
caused by the full text of AGPL3 including the text
The GNU General Public License permits
which matches the regular expression used by lintian to detect the GPL
and needs tightening.
Regards,
Adam
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