Bug#645696: lintian: missing-license-text-in-dep5-copyright is too strict when considering "X+" licenses
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.3
Severity: normal
Currently the tag "missing-license-text-in-dep5-copyright" is emitted when the
copyright file looks like this:
----
Files: *
Copyright: yyyy-yyyy etc
License: MPL-1.1 or GPL-2+ or LGPL-2.1+
License: MPL-1.1
etc
License: GPL-2
etc
License: LGPL-2.1
etc
----
This is unnecessarily strict, because it means we need to have separate
paragraphs for both GPL-2 and GPL-2+ licensed portions of the code. This is
also inconsistent with the practise of splitting out (A or B) into separate
license paragraphs, with "choose at your discretion" being implied - since
"Xn+" means the same as (Xn or Xn+1 or Xn+2 or ...).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.21.90.20111004-2
ii bzip2 1.0.5-7
ii diffstat 1.54-1
ii file 5.08-1
ii gettext 0.18.1.1-5
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.24+b2
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1
ii libdpkg-perl 1.16.1
ii libemail-valid-perl 0.185-1
ii libipc-run-perl 0.90-1
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-1
ii libtimedate-perl 1.2000-1
ii liburi-perl 1.59-1
ii locales 2.13-21
ii man-db 2.6.0.2-2
ii patchutils 0.3.2-1
ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.12.4-4
ii unzip 6.0-5
lintian recommends no packages.
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
ii binutils-multiarch <none>
ii dpkg-dev 1.16.1
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.68-1+b1
ii libtext-template-perl <none>
ii man-db 2.6.0.2-2
ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20110809-2
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