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Bug#762154: lintian: ignore header's license field for missing-license-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright ?



Le Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 10:45:49AM +1100, Ben Finney a écrit :
> On 19-Sep-2014, Charles Plessy wrote:
> > I have a package where the machine-readable copyright file has the
> > following licence field in its header.
> > 
> >     License: GPL-2 and MIT and GPL-3+ with runtime exception and zlib
> >      BEDTools combines source code under GPL-2, LGPL-2.1 and MIT licenses, and
> >      links to libc6, libgcc, libstdc++ and zlib1g.
> 
> Why put that paragraph in the header? Is it not superfluous, since you
> will also need to repeat that license information in the “files”
> paragraphs?

Hi Ben,

in this paragraph, I summarise the situation of the binary executables, taking
dynamic linking into account ("links to libc6, libgcc, libstdc++ and zlib1g").
This is why the "GPL-3+ with runtime exception" and "zlib" licenses are not
present in full in this debian/copyright file.

Have a nice day,

Charles

-- 
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan


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