Bug#893326: lintian: check that patch licenses are compatible with licenses of files they modify

[Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>]

tags 893326 + moreinfo
thanks

Hi Paul,

> It is often the case that the Debian packager just puts debian/ under
> the GNU GPL, which can often be incompatible with code licenses.

I am unsure that a debian/ directory plus the upstream source really
creates a derived work. (I am ignoring the cases where debian/ is so
trivial to be uncopyrightable.)

A link to a few concrete offending cases would therefore be helpful
at this point.


Regards,

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