Bug#745763: lintian: False positive with RFCs
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.22.1
Severity: important
Lintian is giving false positives with qt4-x11:
E: qt4-x11 source: license-problem-non-free-RFC doc/html/licenses.html
N:
N: The given source file is licensed under the newer RFC license.
N:
N: The majority of IETF documents, such as RFCs, are not licensed under
N: DFSG-free terms, and should thus not be included in Debian main.
N:
N: If this file is multi-licensed, please override the tag.
N:
N: If this is a false-positive, please report a bug against Lintian.
N:
N: Refer to https://wiki.debian.org/NonFreeIETFDocuments for details.
N:
N: Severity: serious, Certainty: possible
N:
N: Check: cruft, Type: source
N:
E: qt4-x11 source: license-problem-non-free-RFC doc/html/network-torrent.html
This are documentation HTML pages which are listing the license, but they are
*not* licensed under the RFC's license.
I'm marking this bug with severity important because the false positive is
Serious.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.24-4
ii bzip2 1.0.6-5
ii diffstat 1.58-1
ii file 1:5.17-1
ii gettext 0.18.3.2-1
ii hardening-includes 2.5
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.29+b1
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.37-2
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1
ii libclone-perl 0.36-1
ii libdpkg-perl 1.17.6
ii libemail-valid-perl 1.192-1
ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.03-1
ii libipc-run-perl 0.92-1
ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.33-2
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-1
ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.06~01-2
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-1
ii liburi-perl 1.60-1
ii man-db 2.6.6-1
ii patchutils 0.3.2-3
ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.18.2-2+b1
ii t1utils 1.37-2
Versions of packages lintian recommends:
ii libautodie-perl 2.23-1
ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.18-2
ii perl-modules [libautodie-perl] 5.18.2-2
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none>
ii dpkg-dev 1.17.6
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.71-1+b1
pn libtext-template-perl <none>
pn libyaml-perl <none>
ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2
-- no debconf information
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