Package: lintian Severity: wishlist There are some problematic copyright format 1.0 license statements in the archive. The most common is "UNKNOWN", sometimes with "FIXME" as the full license but sometimes completely blank. In one file "UNKNOWN" is defined as "No information available about the license of this code.", which I think is pretty problematic. Others say it is unclear or clarify what "UNKNOWN" means. Here you can find some instances of this: http://sources.debian.net/src/ghostscript/9.05~dfsg-8/debian/copyright?hl=251#L251 http://sources.debian.net/src/ardour/1:2.8.16-2/debian/copyright?hl=518#L518 http://sources.debian.net/src/ardour/1:2.8.16-2/debian/copyright?hl=360#L360 http://sources.debian.net/src/gst-plugins-bad1.0/1.2.1-2/debian/copyright?hl=525#L525 http://sources.debian.net/src/razorqt/0.5.2-3/debian/copyright?hl=188#L188 http://sources.debian.net/src/asterisk/1:11.7.0~dfsg-1/debian/copyright?hl=267#L267 http://sources.debian.net/src/asterisk/1:11.7.0~dfsg-1/debian/copyright?hl=22#L22 http://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=path%3Adebian%2Fcopyright%24+License%3A+UNKNOWN -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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