Bug#970306: unused-license-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright is a false positive when "+" is involved
Hi Felix.
On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 06:54:26PM -0700, Felix Lechner wrote:
> Hi Carlos,
>
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 6:21 PM Carlos Henrique Lima Melara
> <charlesmelara@outlook.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm having a similar issue when dealing with GPL-3 or GPL-3+ License paragraph.
>
> Do you define separate standalone License paragraphs for 'gpl-3' and
> 'gpl-3+'? It looks like there is only a combined standalone License
> paragraph for 'gpl-3 or gpl-3+', but we would have to see your package
> (or at least the copyright file) to say for sure.
I'll try to be more descriptive, sorry. Yeah, there are 2 files paragraphs, one
with GPL-3 and one with GPL-3+ license field.
Files: some_file
Copyright: Some_person
License: GPL-3
Files: some_other_file
Copyright: some_other_person
License: GPL-3+
And I've been told that is acceptable to use only one license paragraph with
the GPL-3+ text but with GPL-3 or GPL-3+ in the License field like below to
indicate both licenses.
License: GPL-3 or GPL-3+
[LICENSE TEXT]
And that is where the lintian gives me the errors below.
W: paper-icon-theme source: missing-license-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright gpl-3 (line 64)
W: paper-icon-theme source: missing-license-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright gpl-3+ (line 58)
I: paper-icon-theme source: unused-license-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright gpl-3 or gpl-3+ (line 896)
It may be a non-standard use of the license paragraph too. Not sure, but the
package passed by the FTP master team scrutiny a few days ago. If you would
like to see the copyright file, it's available at [1].
[1] https://salsa.debian.org/debian/paper-icon-theme
Thanks,
Charles
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