Dominique Dumont <d...@debian.org> writes: hi Dominique,
> On Sunday 31 March 2013 16:18:53 Felix Natter wrote: >> For instance, this is accepted: >> >> Files: * >> Copyright: 2006-2013 Foo Bar <f...@bar.com> >> License: GPL-2+ >> bla >> >> but "bla" is not a correct license > > Knowing that any software author can write its own license, what algorithm do > you propose to check the "correctness" of a license ? I was thinking about the indentation mostly, but as you stated below I am wrong on this. What about catching single-line licenses? Or is License: GPL see /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL valid? Are there single-line license texts? Other than that, I also cannot think of more stuff to check. > For well known licenses like GPL-*, dpkg model could check if the license > text > matches the one proposed by default. But I don't like this idea, because the > text can change over time without rendering old text wrong. So we could get a > lot of false positive for no added value. That would definitely not be useful ;-) >> and it's not indented correctly. > > AFAIK, this indentation does respect the Description format documented there: > http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields#s-f-Description I didn't realize that, thanks for the clarification. Best Regards, -- Felix Natter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org