Bug#757615: lintian: warn if a space is used in a DEP-5 license name
Johannes Schauer <j.schauer@email.de> writes:
> this bit indeed confuses me in
> https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
> On the one hand it says "License names are case-insensitive, and may not
> contain spaces" on the other hand it has "GPL-2+ with OpenSSL exception"
> in its examples.
That's not a license name. It's a license name with an exception. The
syntax for exceptions is:
<license> with <exception> exception
(In retrospect, we probably should have written ABNF for the fields.)
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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