Bug#729226: False positive for license-problem-gfdl-invariants in Shishi?
Package: lintian
Hi. I got a warning "license-problem-gfdl-invariants" for the Shishi
package, however I believe it is a false positive. The intent is that
there should not be any invariant section, and as far as I can tell,
the GFDL license template in the files are consistent with that.
See:
http://lintian.debian.org/maintainer/help-shishi@gnu.org.html#shishi
The file it complains about is 'doc/shishi.html'. A grep is shown
below. The file contains a copy of the GFDL, which contains an example
of how to write templates with invariant sections. Is that the problem?
Anyway, I'd be thankful if you could take a look at doc/shishi.html and
tell me if it is a bug in the file or in lintian. I'm happy to fix the
file if it turns out that the file claims there is an invariant section.
Thanks,
/Simon
jas@latte:~/src/shishi-1.0.2$ grep -B1 -A1 -i invariant doc/shishi.html
Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software
Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and
no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the
--
any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A
copy of the license is included in the section entitled “GNU Free
--
<!-- any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with
no --> <!-- Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no
Back-Cover --> <!-- Texts. A copy of the license is included in the
``GNU Free --> --
<p>The “Invariant Sections” are certain Secondary
Sections whose titles are designated, as being those of Invariant
Sections, in the notice that says that the Document is released
under this License. If a section does not fit the above
definition of Secondary then it is not allowed to be designated as
Invariant. The Document may contain zero Invariant Sections. If
the Document does not identify any Invariant Sections then there
are none. --
<li>Preserve in that license notice the full lists of
Invariant Sections and required Cover Texts given in the
Document's license notice. --
<li>Preserve all the Invariant Sections of the Document,
unaltered in their text and in their titles. Section numbers
--
<li>Do not retitle any existing section to be Entitled
“Endorsements” or to conflict in title with any
Invariant Section.
--
copied from the Document, you may at your option designate some or all
of these sections as invariant. To do this, add their titles to the
list of Invariant Sections in the Modified Version's license notice.
These titles must be distinct from any other section titles.
--
versions, provided that you include in the combination all of the
Invariant Sections of all of the original documents, unmodified, and
list them all as Invariant Sections of your combined work in its
license notice, and that you preserve all their Warranty Disclaimers.
--
<p>The combined work need only contain one copy of this License,
and multiple identical Invariant Sections may be replaced with a single
copy. If there are multiple Invariant Sections with the same name but
different contents, make the title of each such section unique by
--
Make the same adjustment to the section titles in the list of
Invariant Sections in the license notice of the combined work.
--
distribute translations of the Document under the terms of section 4.
Replacing Invariant Sections with translations requires special
permission from their copyright holders, but you may include
translations of some or all Invariant Sections in addition to the
original versions of these Invariant Sections. You may include a
translation of this License, and all the license notices in the
--
somewhere other than this MMC, and subsequently incorporated in whole
or in part into the MMC, (1) had no cover texts or invariant sections,
and (2) were thus incorporated prior to November 1, 2008.
--
or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;
with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no
Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section
entitled ``GNU --
</pre>
<p>If you have Invariant Sections, Front-Cover Texts and Back-Cover
Texts, replace the “with<small
class="dots">...</small>Texts.” line with this:
<pre class="smallexample"> with the Invariant Sections being
<var>list their titles</var>, with the Front-Cover Texts being
<var>list</var>, and with the Back-Cover Texts --
</pre>
<p>If you have Invariant Sections without Cover Texts, or some other
combination of the three, merge those two alternatives to suit the
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