Lintian tag: copyright-not-using-common-license-for-gpl

Type: error

Description (from lintian-explain-tags)

The strings "GNU General Public License" or "GPL" appear in the copyright
file for this package, but the copyright file does not reference
/usr/share/common-licenses as the location of the GPL on Debian systems.

If the copyright file must mention the GPL for reasons other than stating
the license of the package, please add a Lintian override.

Please refer to Copyright information (Section 12.5) in the Debian Policy
Manual for details.

Visibility: error
Show-Always: no
Check: debian/copyright
Renamed from: copyright-should-refer-to-common-license-file-for-gpl

Affected packages

source version binary tag type tag information count
dbf2mysql 1.14a-7 dbf2mysql/1.14a-7 error copyright-not-using-common-license-for-gpl 6
dbf2mysql 1.14a-7 dbf2mysql/1.14a-7+b1 error copyright-not-using-common-license-for-gpl 3
edict 2024.08.08-1 edict/2024.08.08-1 overridden copyright-not-using-common-license-for-gpl 1
edict 2024.08.08-1 enamdict/2024.08.08-1 overridden copyright-not-using-common-license-for-gpl 1
fortunes-eo 20020729b-1.1 fortunes-eo/20020729b-1.1 error copyright-not-using-common-license-for-gpl 1
fortunes-eo 20020729b-1.1 fortunes-eo-ascii/20020729b-1.1 error copyright-not-using-common-license-for-gpl 1
fortunes-eo 20020729b-1.1 fortunes-eo-iso3/20020729b-1.1 error copyright-not-using-common-license-for-gpl 1
ivtools 2.0.11d.a1-3 ivtools-bin/2.0.11d.a1-3+b3 error copyright-not-using-common-license-for-gpl 9
ivtools 2.0.11d.a1-3 ivtools-dev/2.0.11d.a1-3+b3 error copyright-not-using-common-license-for-gpl 9
ivtools 2.0.11d.a1-3 libiv2t64/2.0.11d.a1-3+b3 error copyright-not-using-common-license-for-gpl 9
ivtools 2.0.11d.a1-3 libiv-unidraw2t64/2.0.11d.a1-3+b3 error copyright-not-using-common-license-for-gpl 9
kanjidic 2024.08.06 kanjidic/2024.08.06 overridden copyright-not-using-common-license-for-gpl 1
kanjidic 2024.08.06 kanjidic-xml/2024.08.06 error copyright-not-using-common-license-for-gpl 1
lhs2tex 1.24-1 lhs2tex/1.24-1+b1 error copyright-not-using-common-license-for-gpl 1
lhs2tex 1.24-1 lhs2tex/1.24-1+b2 error copyright-not-using-common-license-for-gpl 8
nitpic 0.1-19 nitpic/0.1-19+b1 overridden copyright-not-using-common-license-for-gpl 8
nitpic 0.1-19 nitpic/0.1-19+b2 overridden copyright-not-using-common-license-for-gpl 1
tor 0.4.8.13-2 tor/0.4.8.13-2 error copyright-not-using-common-license-for-gpl 9
wide-dhcpv6 20080615-23 wide-dhcpv6-client/20080615-23 overridden copyright-not-using-common-license-for-gpl 7
wide-dhcpv6 20080615-23 wide-dhcpv6-client/20080615-23+b1 overridden copyright-not-using-common-license-for-gpl 2
wide-dhcpv6 20080615-23 wide-dhcpv6-relay/20080615-23 overridden copyright-not-using-common-license-for-gpl 7
wide-dhcpv6 20080615-23 wide-dhcpv6-relay/20080615-23+b1 overridden copyright-not-using-common-license-for-gpl 2
wide-dhcpv6 20080615-23 wide-dhcpv6-server/20080615-23 overridden copyright-not-using-common-license-for-gpl 7
wide-dhcpv6 20080615-23 wide-dhcpv6-server/20080615-23+b1 overridden copyright-not-using-common-license-for-gpl 2
x11-apps 7.7+11 x11-apps/7.7+11+b1 error copyright-not-using-common-license-for-gpl 7
x11-apps 7.7+11 x11-apps/7.7+11+b2 error copyright-not-using-common-license-for-gpl 2