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 level tag count information
amoeba-data 1.1-7.2 amoeba-data/1.1-7.2 error copyright-not-using-common-license-for-gpl 1
dbf2mysql 1.14a-8 dbf2mysql/1.14a-8 error copyright-not-using-common-license-for-gpl 7
dbf2mysql 1.14a-8 dbf2mysql/1.14a-8+b1 error copyright-not-using-common-license-for-gpl 1
edict 2025.11.06-1 edict/2025.11.06-1 overridden copyright-not-using-common-license-for-gpl 1
edict 2025.11.06-1 enamdict/2025.11.06-1 overridden copyright-not-using-common-license-for-gpl 1
fortunes-eo 20250604-1 fortunes-eo/20250604-1 error copyright-not-using-common-license-for-gpl 1
kanjidic 2025.11.06 kanjidic/2025.11.06 overridden copyright-not-using-common-license-for-gpl 1
kanjidic 2025.11.06 kanjidic-xml/2025.11.06 error copyright-not-using-common-license-for-gpl 1
python-livereload 2.7.1-0.2 python3-livereload/2.7.1-0.2 error copyright-not-using-common-license-for-gpl 1
python-livereload 2.7.1-0.2 python-livereload-doc/2.7.1-0.2 error copyright-not-using-common-license-for-gpl 1
shairport-sync 5.1~dev~git20260518-1 shairport-sync/5.1~dev~git20260518-1+b2 error copyright-not-using-common-license-for-gpl 8
tor 0.4.9.15-1 tor/0.4.9.15-1 error copyright-not-using-common-license-for-gpl 8
wide-dhcpv6 20080615-24 wide-dhcpv6-client/20080615-24 overridden copyright-not-using-common-license-for-gpl 6
wide-dhcpv6 20080615-24 wide-dhcpv6-client/20080615-24+b1 overridden copyright-not-using-common-license-for-gpl 1
wide-dhcpv6 20080615-24 wide-dhcpv6-client/20080615-24+b2 overridden copyright-not-using-common-license-for-gpl 1
wide-dhcpv6 20080615-24 wide-dhcpv6-relay/20080615-24 overridden copyright-not-using-common-license-for-gpl 6
wide-dhcpv6 20080615-24 wide-dhcpv6-relay/20080615-24+b1 overridden copyright-not-using-common-license-for-gpl 1
wide-dhcpv6 20080615-24 wide-dhcpv6-relay/20080615-24+b2 overridden copyright-not-using-common-license-for-gpl 1
wide-dhcpv6 20080615-24 wide-dhcpv6-server/20080615-24 overridden copyright-not-using-common-license-for-gpl 6
wide-dhcpv6 20080615-24 wide-dhcpv6-server/20080615-24+b1 overridden copyright-not-using-common-license-for-gpl 1
wide-dhcpv6 20080615-24 wide-dhcpv6-server/20080615-24+b2 overridden copyright-not-using-common-license-for-gpl 1
x11-apps 7.7+11 x11-apps/7.7+11+b1 error copyright-not-using-common-license-for-gpl 6
x11-apps 7.7+11 x11-apps/7.7+11+b2 error copyright-not-using-common-license-for-gpl 1
x11-apps 7.7+11 x11-apps/7.7+11+b3 error copyright-not-using-common-license-for-gpl 1