Re: Fixing "dep5-copyright-license-name-not-unique" and "missing-license-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright"

[T o n g <mlist4suntong@yahoo.com>]

On Sat, 21 Nov 2015 13:57:45 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:

>> I need to fix  "dep5-copyright-license-name-not-unique" and "missing-
>> license-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright" for my package. Ref, https://
>> lintian.debian.org/maintainer/
suntong001@users.sourceforge.net.html#dbab
> 
> For reference, the current ‘debian/copyright’ file can be seen in the
> VCS <URL:https://github.com/suntong/dbab/blob/master/debian/copyright>.
> 
>> What's wrong?
> 
> You have given two different long descriptions of the “License” with the
> short name “BSD-3-clause”, and Lintian helpfully informs you of this
> with the “dep5-copyright-license-name-not-unique” tag.
> 
> You should only give the license text used by upstream, once, in one
> “License” field in that ‘debian/copyright’ file. All other references to
> the same license should have “License: BSD-3-clause”, with just the
> short name, no long description.
> 
> Now, what you're probably trying to do is to record the *grant* of
> license ...
> I recommend you put the license grant text for each paragraph in a
> “License-Grant” field for that paragraph. That field isn't defined in
> the current specification, but is available for our use.

Yep, that works well. 

Thanks