Package: lintian Version: 2.114.0 Severity: normal Hi,
Gpl-2+ (used in d/copyright) is equivalent to gpl-2.0+ used in appstream metadata, so this is a false positive. Were GNU to hypothetically release a GPL 2.1, and were upstream to switch to it, the onus would be on the Debian maintainer to update d/copyright. It also seems wrong to emit this at the warning level for this specific case. If lintian is encouraging maintainers to use the "gpl-2.0+" notation rather than gpl-2+ in d/copyright, then it should emit a different (lower severity than warning) tag for that case. It seems clear to me that (gpl-2.0+ = gpl-2+), so it looks like the correct approach is to use a table of equivalent license notations to prevent the false positive. Apologies if bias has prevented me from deeper analysis or seeing other solutions. Thanks! Nicholas