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

[Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>]

Hi Julian,

> The test for the human-readable rather than legal text of the Creative
> Commons licenses seems to fail, because the preamble about Creative
> Commons not being a law firm is not part of the license text, and
> neither is the postamble about Creative Commons not being a party to
> the license agreement; they are instead form the terms and conditions
> between Creative Commons and the person using a CC license.  So I
> cannot see why these parts should necessarily be included in the
> Debian copyright file.  Has there been a policy decision to require
> this, perhaps?
> 
> Also, it seems that this check would be better in the parse_license
> function when checking each license block rather than the run
> function, as there might be more than one CC license in a copyright
> file, and it is feasible that one is correct and one not.

CC'ing Jonathan Dowland who filed the original request for this
in #903470. Could you folks come to some agreement on a good/reliable
check?


Regards,

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