Bug#616436: Lintian complains about PHP license 2.01 even for PEAR packages

[Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.4.3
Severity: normal

Hi there,

I'm a member of the PKG-PHP team, and I do a lot of PEAR packages maintenance.

E: php-auth-http: copyright-refers-to-bad-php-license
N: 
N:    This package appears to be covered by version 2.x of the PHP license,
N:    which is not appropriate for anything other than PHP itself.
N:    
N:    Refer to http://ftp-master.debian.org/REJECT-FAQ.html for details.
N:    
N:    Severity: serious, Certainty: possible

even if PEAR packages are really to be considered part of PHP.

It would be great to do something about it if possible. One of the way to fix
it could be to use the full list of currently available pacakges from
pear.php.net, and compare it with the package name, to avoid this error to
appear. What do you think?

Cheers,

Thomas

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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  locales-all [locales]  2.11.2-10         Embedded GNU C Library: Precompile
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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