Bug#757615: lintian: warn if a space is used in a DEP-5 license name

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Johannes Schauer <j.schauer@email.de> writes:

> but together, the original license text plus the exception form a new
> license with the name of format "<license> with <exception> exception",
> no?

Not according to the specification, no.

> More importantly for this bugreport: what constitutes a "license name"
> and how can one check that it is without spaces?

I think you just need to strip off a trailing "with <exception> exception"
before checking for spaces.

> Maybe the copyright format needs an amendment which specifies the syntax
> for things like "license plus exception" or "license of some variant"?

I think the current copyright format is reasonably clear, although I do
prefer to have formal syntax for anything like this.

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>