[Pkg-pascal-devel] Lintian warnings about depreciated BSD licence file.

[Peter]

On 05/12/2021 15:43, Abou Al Montacir wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I've fixed many issues recently on Lazarus in order to make it migrate to testing. I think this is going to happens soon.
>
> Now I had a look at the tracker mentioned issues and spot a warning about licence issue. As this is far to be my 
> strong point to fetch issues in license file, I'd like to know if some one would help to sort this out.
> -- 
> Cheers,
> Abou Al Montacir
>
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Hi Abou,

The only change needed here is to put the actual license text into the copright file, and remove the link to 
/usr/share/common-licenses.


"/The copyright file refers to /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD. Due to the brevity of this license, the specificity of 
this copy to code whose copyright is held by the Regents of the University of California, and the frequency of minor 
wording changes in the license, its text should be included in the copyright file directly rather than referencing this 
file/."


Seems to me that the Lintian warning is badly worded. There being no issue with the license itself, the problem being 
use of the (now deprecated) link.


Hope this is useful.
Cheers,
Peter