Bug#893326: lintian: check that patch licenses are compatible with licenses of files they modify
Hi Paul,
> > I am unsure that a debian/ directory plus the upstream source really
> > creates a derived work.
>
> It definitely does when there are patches to the upstream code in
> debian/, which is the case I'm talking about with this feature request.
Ah, mea culpa, I was parsing this as `debian/` and not `debian/patches`.
> I don't have any at this point because I wanted to use lintian to
> discover instances of this problem :)
How would we even know the license of a file under debian/patches? Looking
DEP-3 [0] it does not have a `License` field.
Perhaps you could mock up an offending entry here so we are 100% certain
we are talking about the same things.
[0] http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep3/
Regards,
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