Hi, On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 08:28:07PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > Package: debmake > Version: 4.2.2-1 > Severity: important > > I believe > <URL: > https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/#license-specification > > > specify the license text present in /usr/share/debmake/extra4/MIT should > be named Expat, not MIT. Do you agree?
POLICY is explicit just below table: There are many versions of the MIT license. Please use Expat instead, when it matches. My excuse is, when I wrote this script, I looked at SPDX too much without carefully reading Debian policy. SPDX MIT license example: http://spdx.org/licenses/MIT.html > I noticed when using 'debmake -k' and debmake asked me to rename Expat > to MIT in the zfs package. Yes TRUE. THis needs fix. > If I am right, I believe this is an important bug to fix as it is very > misleading to recommend the wrong license name and complain about > correct license names. Setting severity accordingly. Very true. Osamu
