Bug#873323: lintian -- False positives on copyright-year-in-future
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.52
Severity: normal
The license of package oysttyer contains an example, which gives a false
positive for "copyright-year-in-future":
* If you choose to create and distribute a derivative work based on
this package, your derivative work must clearly make reference to
this package, any other packages your work or the original work
might be based on, and all applicable copyrights, either in your
documentation, your work's standard human-readable output, or both.
A suggested method might be
Contains or is based on the Foo software package.
Copyright (C) 2112 D. Original Author. All rights reserved.
http://their.web.site.invalid/
Thorsten
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