Bug#893326: lintian: check that patch licenses are compatible with licenses of files they modify

[Paul Wise]

On Sun, 2018-03-18 at 01:50 +, Chris Lamb wrote:

> I am unsure that a debian/ directory plus the upstream source really
> creates a derived work.

It definitely does when there are patches to the upstream code in
debian/, which is the case I'm talking about with this feature request.

> A link to a few concrete offending cases would therefore be helpful
> at this point.

I don't have any at this point because I wanted to use lintian to
discover instances of this problem :)

I often see sponsors on debian-mentors asking people to use the same
license as upstream, most of the time it is GPL for debian/ and
permissive licenses for upstream, but that is a subject for another
feature request though.

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Bug#893326: lintian: check that patch licenses are compatible with licenses of files they modify

[Chris Lamb]

tags 893326 + moreinfo
thanks

Hi Paul,

> It is often the case that the Debian packager just puts debian/ under
> the GNU GPL, which can often be incompatible with code licenses.

I am unsure that a debian/ directory plus the upstream source really
creates a derived work. (I am ignoring the cases where debian/ is so
trivial to be uncopyrightable.)

A link to a few concrete offending cases would therefore be helpful
at this point.


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Bug#893326: lintian: check that patch licenses are compatible with licenses of files they modify

[Paul Wise]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.79
Severity: wishlist

For packages with a machine-readable debian/copyright file and patches,
please check that the license for the debian/patches/* files are
compatible with the licenses for the files that they are modifying.

It is often the case that the Debian packager just puts debian/ under
the GNU GPL, which can often be incompatible with code licenses.
I suggest that the initial list of incompatibilities start with the
licenses that are incompatible with the GNU GPL.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLIncompatibleLicenses

Further resources for determining which licenses are incompatible:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/License_compatibility
https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/licensing-considerations/compatible-licenses/
https://apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing-debug
  APT policy: (900, 'testing-debug'), (900, 'testing'), (800, 
'unstable-debug'), (800, 'unstable'), (790, 'buildd-unstable'), (700, 
'experimental-debug'), (700, 'experimental'), (690, 'buildd-experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils  2.30-7
ii  bzip2 1.0.6-8.1
ii  diffstat  1.61-1+b1
ii  dpkg  1.19.0.5
ii  file  1:5.32-2
ii  gettext   0.19.8.1-4
ii  intltool-debian   0.35.0+20060710.4
ii  libapt-pkg-perl   0.1.33
ii  libarchive-zip-perl   1.60-1
ii  libclass-accessor-perl0.51-1
ii  libclone-perl 0.39-1
ii  libdpkg-perl  1.19.0.5
ii  libemail-valid-perl   1.202-1
ii  libfile-basedir-perl  0.07-1
ii  libipc-run-perl   0.96-1
ii  liblist-moreutils-perl0.416-1+b3
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-12
ii  libperl5.26 [libdigest-sha-perl]  5.26.1-5
ii  libtext-levenshtein-perl  0.13-1
ii  libtimedate-perl  2.3000-2
ii  liburi-perl   1.73-1
ii  libxml-simple-perl2.24-1
ii  libyaml-libyaml-perl  0.69+repack-1
ii  man-db2.8.2-1
ii  patchutils0.3.4-2
ii  perl  5.26.1-5
ii  t1utils   1.41-2
ii  xz-utils  5.2.2-1.3

Versions of packages lintian recommends:
ii  libperlio-gzip-perl  0.19-1+b4

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
ii  binutils-multiarch 2.30-7
ii  dpkg-dev   1.19.0.5
ii  libhtml-parser-perl3.72-3+b2
ii  libtext-template-perl  1.47-1

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[lintian] branch master updated (7f31cec -> be4e018)

[Paul Wise]

This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script.

pabs pushed a change to branch master
in repository lintian.

  from  7f31cec   Look under all of /usr/share/doc (not just 
/usr/share/doc/$pkg) when looking for installed examples and update tag 
description to match. (Closes: #892905)
   new  be4e018   spelling: Add several corrections

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Summary of changes:
 data/spelling/corrections | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

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[lintian] 01/01: spelling: Add several corrections

[Paul Wise]

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commit be4e01880f90a38eaa57bdaafc70b727f21b364a
Author: Paul Wise 
Date:   Sat Mar 17 18:08:19 2018 +0800

spelling: Add several corrections
---
 data/spelling/corrections | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/data/spelling/corrections b/data/spelling/corrections
index 780ea5a..499af35 100644
--- a/data/spelling/corrections
+++ b/data/spelling/corrections
@@ -275,6 +275,8 @@ amoung||among
 amout||amount
 analagous||analogous
 analysator||analyzer
+anarquism||anarchism
+anarquist||anarchist
 ang||and
 anlysis||analysis
 anniversery||anniversary

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