Bug#709365: lintian: check for standard license short names
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 10:08:54PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote:
> Thanks for the idea and the effort in making a patch of it. However, I
> believe that specification allows anyone to "invent" a new "ad-hoc"
> license short name for any license without a standardised name:
Yes, that's true, and furthermore the patch is buggy because it doesn't
check for trailing + signs.
However, I don't see a good way of catching "misguided" short names
without doing something very much like this.
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