Package: lintian Version: 2.5.50 Severity: normal Recently a check for a probably license problem by using a old convert_UTF.c file with the non-free license was introduced in lintian.
The check seems to bring out false positives. As a co-maintainer of src:icedove I see being hit by this lintian check now. https://lintian.debian.org/maintainer/ch...@sigxcpu.org.html#icedove Mozilla is updated the used convert_UTF.c for some time and is using the new relicensed file from unicode.org. This is the used version within Thunderbird 45.6.0 https://sources.debian.net/src/icedove/1:45.6.0-2/mozilla/toolkit/crashreporter/google-breakpad/src/common/convert_UTF.c The header in the source file uses the same license agreement as written on copyright information site on unicode.org that got a agreement on beeing free in terms of DFSG based on report #823100. http://www.unicode.org/copyright.html#Exhibit1 I don't know how the check is in detail working but it's need to get a bit smarter I think. Regards Carsten -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.27.51.20161220-1 ii bzip2 1.0.6-8 ii diffstat 1.61-1 ii file 1:5.29-2 ii gettext 0.19.8.1-1 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.4 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.30 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.59-1 ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 ii libclone-perl 0.38-2+b1 ii libdpkg-perl 1.18.18 ii libemail-valid-perl 1.202-1 ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.07-1 ii libipc-run-perl 0.94-1 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b1 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-12 ii libperl5.24 [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.24.1~rc4-1 ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2 ii liburi-perl 1.71-1 ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.63-2 ii man-db 2.7.6.1-2 ii patchutils 0.3.4-2 ii perl 5.24.1~rc4-1 ii t1utils 1.39-2 ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.2 Versions of packages lintian recommends: ii dpkg 1.18.18 pn libperlio-gzip-perl <none> ii perl 5.24.1~rc4-1 ii perl-modules-5.24 [libautodie-perl] 5.24.1~rc4-1 Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> ii dpkg-dev 1.18.18 ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-3 pn libtext-template-perl <none> -- no debconf information
