Package: lintian Version: 2.104.0 Severity: normal Dear maintainer,
When reviewing the package achilles, I added an AppStream metafile with the MIT licensing. The lintian said me: achilles source: inconsistent-appstream-metadata-license debian/upstream/net.sourceforge.achilles.achilles.metainfo.xml (mit != gpl-2+) [debian/copyright] So I changed the licensing of the AppStream metafile to GPL-2+. After this, the tracker.debian.org showed an error 'metainfo-license-invalid' and asked for use a valid permissive license like FSFAP, CC0-1.0 or MIT. The same message pointed a link to understand the problem: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Metadata.html#tag-metadata_license Part of the text in above weblink says: The <metadata_license/> tag indicates the content license that you are releasing the one metainfo XML file under. This is typically not the same as the project license. Omitting the license value will result in the metainfo data not being incorporated into metadata collections as used by Linux distributions. This tag is required for all metainfo files. [...] Currently, the following licenses have been reviewed and can be used as metadata licenses: FSFAP, MIT, 0BSD, CC0-1.0, CC-BY-3.0, CC-BY-4.0, CC-BY-SA-3.0, CC-BY-SA-4.0, GFDL-1.1, GFDL-1.2, GFDL-1.3, BSL-1.0, FTL, FSFUL. Consequently, IMO, this lintian rule is inconsistent and should be dropped. Regards, Eriberto
