Bug#924782: lintian: inconsistent-appstream-metadata-license too restrictive

["Chris Lamb" <lamby@debian.org>]

tags 924782 + moreinfo
thanks

Hi Mark,

> The package as a whole is LGPL-2.1+. I licensed the AppStream metadata
> as CC0-1.0.
> 
> Surely having a more permissive license for AppStream metadata is
> not a problem?

A more permissive license should not be a problem in terms of
copyright issues.

However, Lintian is detecting saying that the AppStream metadata file
specifies a "metadata_license" field but this does not match that
file's license in debian/copyright. The latter file is therefore
incomplete, rather than the package not being legally distributable.

Hope that makes sense.


Best wishes,

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