Bug#626454: lintian: False positive: copyright-should-refer-to-common-license-file-for-gpl
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.0
Severity: normal
Dear Lintian maintainers,
in my package embassy-phylip, there is a comment saying that the
package is not GPL despite a copy of the GPL is distributed with the
sources. This triggers the copyright-should-refer-to-common-license-file-for-gpl error.
http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/non-free/e/embassy-phylip/current/copyright
When Lintian starts to take advantage of DEP-5, perhaps you can
consider to exclude Comments fields from the copyright-should-refer-to-common-license-file-for-gpl check.
Have a nice day,
--
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
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