Bug#709365: lintian: check for standard license short names
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 05:03:49PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> So in some cases you _must_not_ use any of these standard names.
>
> What Lintian could do is to parse the full license text, see if it
> matches any standard license, and if it does then emit the tag. But
> that's far from trivial to implement.
If only fossology were still in Debian, lintian could then declare
a dependency on nomos.
Really, though, would you prefer a blacklist instead?
lintian could warn on shortnames "BSD", "BSD3", "BSD-2", "BSD (2 clause)",
"BSD License", "GPLv2", "GPL (v2 or later)", "MIT" and so on.
The lack of any feedback right now is leading to data pollution
which makes the machine-readable copyright format not very useful
as a machine-readable copyright format.
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