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Bug#970306: marked as done (unused-license-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright is a false positive when "+" is involved)



Your message dated Mon, 20 Jan 2025 14:16:17 +0800
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has caused the Debian Bug report #970306,
regarding unused-license-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright is a false positive when "+" is involved
to be marked as done.

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Package: lintian
Version: 2.14.0
Severity: minor

I get many unused-license-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright I:-type messages
from lintian, because the paragraphs in question are License: foo and
used as License: foo+. Lintian should see that it's compatible and
accept it.

I hope that helps,

JP

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> 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].

Since GPL-3 and GPL-3+ are "separate" licenses, they should use their own paragraphs.

> [1] https://salsa.debian.org/debian/paper-icon-theme

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