Control: retitle -1 license-problem-non-free-RFC: False positive when describing license conditions
On 26-Apr-2014, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
> On Sunday 27 April 2014 02:13:04 Bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
> > Moreover in this case lintian is right because this file describe
> > the license used by some of qt4-x11 code. For instance how can I
> > programatically check if README license text apply to whole
> > project or to only the README file* ?
>
> No, lintian is not right because it is pointing to the wrong file.
Here's another example:
<URL: https://salsa.debian.org/bignose/pkg-python-irc/-/blob/main/debian/README.source#L102>
The mention of the RFC includes the copyright notice from that RFC,
for the purpose of explaining why the RFC is *not* part of the Debian
package.
So Lintian should not raise a tag for that; it is a false positive.
Please refine the Lintian check so that it does not catch documents
which *describe* license conditions and do not *claim* those
conditions on the package.
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Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
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