Bug#929298: license-reconcile does not recognize expat shortname of MIT/X11 preferred by machine readable copyright
Pirate Praveen
praveen at onenetbeyond.org
Tue May 21 07:42:55 BST 2019
package: license-reconcile
severity: important
version: 0.16
For example, in this repo,
https://salsa.debian.org/ruby-team/ruby-inherited-resources
License mismatch: File MIT-LICENSE has license MIT/X11 (BSD like) which
does not match Expat. at
/usr/share/perl5/Debian/LicenseReconcile/App.pm line 222, <GEN0> line 3.
Copyright format at,
https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/#license-short-name
says "There are many versions of the MIT license. Please use Expat
instead, when it matches."
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