Bug#906284: lintian: check for incomplete-creative-commons-license gives false positives: the "not a law firm" is a preamble, not a license

To: 906284@bugs.debian.org
Cc: Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgefjell.de>, 907272@bugs.debian.org, Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>, Julien Puydt <julien.puydt@laposte.net>, Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org>
Subject: Bug#906284: lintian: check for incomplete-creative-commons-license gives false positives: the "not a law firm" is a preamble, not a license
From: Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2018 20:12:11 +0100
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forcemerge 906284 907272
thanks

Hi,

This looks like #906284 - let's at least centralise the on-going
discussion there (and vice versa).


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