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Bug#743532: lintian: when to say: old-fsf-address-in-copyright-file



* Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>, 2014-04-05, 23:30:
License: GPL-2.0+ with incorrect FSF address, and with autoconf exception
FWIW, this line does not conform to the copyright format specification.
What is the offending part? "GPL-2.0+" or "with ..."?

The latter.

As for "with ..." part, I am following "An exception or clarification to a license is signalled in plain text, by appending with keywords exception to the short name."

Later it says “If more than one exception applies to a single license, an arbitrary short name indicating that combination of multiple exceptions must be used”, but your name is quite long. ;-P

Now seriously: I don't believe you can use “and” or “or” in the exception name, because they are used as conjunctions between licenses. Admittedly, the specification doesn't really say what you _can_ put between “with” and “exception”, which I think is a bug.

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Jakub Wilk


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