Bug#745763: lintian: False positive with RFCs
control: tags -1 + wontfix
control: severity -1 minor
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 12:38 AM, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
<perezmeyer@gmail.com> wrote:
> reopen 745763
> thanks
>
> On Saturday 26 April 2014 12:41:57 Bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
> [snip]
>> No the license is false, lintian is right.
>>
>> "The implementation of the US Secure Hash Algorithm 1 (SHA1) in this
>> example is derived from the original description" under license.
>> Legally you are bind to this license even for code, but fortunatly the
>> "The Internet Society" allow you according to
>> http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info/IETF-TLP-4.htm to implement the
>> code under bsd licence (#4).
>>
>> Thus lintian is right to warm you, the license if false in this case.
>
> Lintian is right to warn me that an html file is describing the license of
> certain code and not the code itself????
>
> Sorry, I think Lintian should warn about the code, not about a file that is
> only listing licenses.
Yes it is the case and I wish to keep this. They are a few non free
license under debian/copyright and we get a lot of true positive.
Moreover lintian could not check code from description. html file are
licensed and thus how could we get the difference between the html
license file and the code described in the file.
You are free to code a neural network if you want to get some result
but note it is beyond my perl skills.
Moreover in this case lintian is right because this file describe the
license used by some of qt4-x11 code. For instance how can I
programatically check if README license text apply to whole project or
to only the README file* ?
So I am not inclined to close this bug because I check file that list license.
In your particular case note that the license is wrong and you must change it.
Bastien
* I really like dep5 copyright format due to being checkable
automatically. Human grammar is not read for instance Chumsky for
understanding why it is beyond reasonable expectation for today
computing power.
>
> I'm reopening the bug.
>
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>
> Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
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