Bug#663455: RFS: m2m-aligner/1.0-1 [ITP] -- many-to-many, alignments for string transduction

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Giulio Paci <giuliopaci@gmail.com>, 2013-01-16, 21:51:
> > Lintian emits:
> >
> > I: m2m-aligner source: unused-license-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright 
> > gpl-2+ (paragraph at line 129)
>
> I noticed it yesterday.
> The problem is that the package contains missing and depcomp that are 
> distributed under the GPL-2+ licence with an exception.
> I reported this fact by saying that the license of these files is 
> "GPL-2+ or Expat" and adding the exception text in the licence 
> description.
>
> I just read again the copyright format description, and probably I just 
> should report "GPL-2+ with Autoconf exception" instead and avoid to put 
> a long license description.
> Is this the right way to proceed?

I think so.

> If yes, in other packages I added exceptions by adding each exception 
> in a license section on its own and then using the "and" keyword. Do 
> you think I should change those package to use the "with XXX exception" 
> form?

Yes.

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Jakub Wilk