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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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