Bug#672284: lintian: False positive: no-debian-copyright when packages supply debian/$pkgname.copyright
Hi,
> having
> copyright files that vary with binary package doesn't make sense to me.
I struggled with that as well while rewriting the copyright check.
Lintian will soon ignore per-package copyrights in ./debian. It will
also produce errors.
Lintian may further print errors when copyright files in installation
packages are not true copies of the d/copyright file in their source.
> One nice thing that having separate copyright files per binary package
> would let you do is be unambiguous that a particular binary package with
> an OpenSSL dependency contains only BSD-licensed code even if the source
> package has other GPL-licensed code, so that you know for certain there's
> no clash with the OpenSSL license.
Leaving the relicensing of OpenSSL aside (plus, alternatives like
wolfSSL exist) I do not think that this fine point, while well
articulated, warrants the technical complexity or the legal risks.
Kind regards
Felix Lechner
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