Control: retitle -1 license-problem-non-free-RFC: False positive when describing license conditions
On 26-Apr-2014, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > On Sunday 27 April 2014 02:13:04 Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > > Moreover in this case lintian is right because this file describe > > the license used by some of qt4-x11 code. For instance how can I > > programatically check if README license text apply to whole > > project or to only the README file* ? > > No, lintian is not right because it is pointing to the wrong file. Here's another example: <URL: https://salsa.debian.org/bignose/pkg-python-irc/-/blob/main/debian/README.source#L102> The mention of the RFC includes the copyright notice from that RFC, for the purpose of explaining why the RFC is *not* part of the Debian package. So Lintian should not raise a tag for that; it is a false positive. Please refine the Lintian check so that it does not catch documents which *describe* license conditions and do not *claim* those conditions on the package. -- \ “Know what I hate most? Rhetorical questions.” —Henry N. Camp | `\ | _o__) | Ben Finney <bign...@debian.org>
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