Bug#757545: lintian: warn if the License paragraph in debian/copyright for known licenses not in /usr/share/common-licenses is too short
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.25
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
some licenses are rather long and thus it could be easily detected
whether their "License" paragraph in debian/copyright is too short to
possibly contain them.
Here some examples of licenses which are probably long enough such that
this heuristic would have a low amount of false positives but are not
shipped in /usr/share/common-licenses:
- AGPL3
- LaTeX Project Public License
- Python Software Foundation License
- Mozilla Public License
- Creative Commons licenses
the user would then get a message like: "your License stanza for AGPL3+
is only 20 lines long and thus probably not the full text of the AGPL"
Thanks!
cheers, josch
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 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 2.24.51.20140617-1
ii bzip2 1.0.6-5
ii diffstat 1.58-1
ii file 1:5.19-1
ii gettext 0.18.3.2-3
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 0.37-1
ii libdpkg-perl 1.17.10
ii libemail-valid-perl 1.194-1
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 0.09-1
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2
ii liburi-perl 1.62-1
ii man-db 2.6.7.1-1
ii patchutils 0.3.3-1
ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.18.2-6
ii t1utils 1.37-2
Versions of packages lintian recommends:
ii libautodie-perl 2.25-1
ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.18-3
ii perl-modules [libautodie-perl] 5.18.2-6
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none>
ii dpkg-dev 1.17.10
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.71-1+b1
ii libtext-template-perl 1.46-1
ii libyaml-perl 0.95-1
ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2
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