Bug#815308: streamlining license version "or later" version syntax

[Tobias Frost <tobi@debian.org>]

Am Samstag, den 20.02.2016, 19:41 +0100 schrieb Daniel Pocock:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 2.5.30+deb8u4
> X-Debbugs-cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
> 
> 
> Let's say that debian/copyright contains the following:
> 
> 
> 
> Files: foo
> Copyright: 2016, Mr Foo
> License: GPL-2
> 
> Files: bar
> Copyright: 2016, Mr Bar
> License: GPL-2+
> 
> License: GPL-2
>  On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General
>  Public License version 2 can be found in
> "/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2".
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Lintian will complain with a warning:
> 
> W: libfoobar source: missing-license-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright gpl-
> 2+
> (paragraph at line X)
> 
> 
> Should lintian ignore the '+' suffix when determining if a License
> paragraph exists?
> 

Well, IMHO lintian is right here.

You'll need also the "license grant", your License: paragraph'd be
incomplete without it.
And the license grant is the one that actually grants the "or later
option", not the license text itself in /usr/share/common-licenses

Also, not quoting the license grant would be a violation of the
"verbatim copyright" requirement in the Policy. 


-- 
tobi