[Debian-med-packaging] FDL with no invariant sections

[Charles Plessy]

Le Tue, May 20, 2014 at 09:42:40AM +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit :
> 
> I realised that lintian is claiming:
> 
> $ dget http://http.debian.net/debian/pool/main/e/emboss/emboss_6.6.0-1.dsc
> $ lintian emboss_6.6.0-1.dsc 
> E: emboss source: license-problem-gfdl-invariants doc/manuals/admin.tex invariant part is: url{http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html , version 1.1 or any later version published by the free software foundation; with no invariant sections, with no front-cover texts, and with no back-cover texts

Hi Andreas,

isn't that a false positive from Lintian ?

The Lintian tag is for files “licensed under GFDL with invariant section or…”,
but both the error message and the full copyright notice confirm that it is not
the case here.

    Copyright (c) 2000, 2002 David Martin, Peter Rice, Alan Bleasby.
    
    Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
    under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation
    License\URL{http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html}, Version 1.1 or any
    later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
    Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover
    Texts.  A copy of the license is included in the chapter entitled "GNU
    Free Documentation License".

Have a nice day,

Charles

-- 
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan