Bug#618874: lintian: Please check copyright stanzas from non-DFSG licenses
Package: lintian
Version: 2.4.3
Severity: wishlist
First of all I have to say that this would be more implementable once the standardized copyright
format has stabilized and non-use is deprecated. As such it should be taken as a vote of support for
#478930 .
I recently found that I had issued something into the main area with parts under the W3C-Document license.
That license does not permit modification. The ability to match verify the listed licenses against the
stated DFSG status seems like a killer app within the Debian packaging world to me.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-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 2.21.0.20110302-2 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.54-1 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 1.58-1 module to manipulate and access UR
ii locales 2.11.2-13 Embedded GNU C Library: National L
ii man-db 2.5.7-8 on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-sha-pe 5.10.1-18 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none> (no description available)
pn libtext-template-perl <none> (no description available)
ii man-db 2.5.7-8 on-line manual pager
-- no debconf information
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