#1012581 Warn when copyright contains license MIT instead of more specific Expat or X11

Package:
lintian
Source:
lintian
Submitter:
Ben Westover
Date:
2022-06-09 18:48:03 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
Tags:
#1012581#5
Date:
2022-06-09 18:45:29 UTC
From:
To:
Dear maintainer,

Many packages' copyright files use the license name MIT, even though
that's a name used for two slightly different licenses, Expat and X11.
Lintian should warn maintainers who use this broad term instead of the
specific license (Expat or X11) that the software actually uses.

Regards,
--
Ben Westover

System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
    APT prefers unstable
    APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: arm64 (aarch64)

Kernel: Linux 5.17.0-3-arm64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE
not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils                        2.38-4
ii  bzip2                           1.0.8-5
ii  diffstat                        1.64-1
ii  dpkg                            1.21.8
ii  dpkg-dev                        1.21.8
ii  file                            1:5.41-4
ii  gettext                         0.21-6
ii  gpg                             2.2.35-2
ii  intltool-debian                 0.35.0+20060710.5
ii  libapt-pkg-perl                 0.1.40+b1
ii  libarchive-zip-perl             1.68-1
ii  libcapture-tiny-perl            0.48-1
ii  libclass-xsaccessor-perl        1.19-3+b8
ii  libclone-perl                   0.45-1+b2
ii  libconfig-tiny-perl             2.28-1
ii  libconst-fast-perl              0.014-1.1
ii  libcpanel-json-xs-perl          4.29-1
ii  libdata-dpath-perl              0.58-1
ii  libdata-validate-domain-perl    0.10-1.1
ii  libdata-validate-uri-perl       0.07-2
ii  libdevel-size-perl              0.83-1+b3
pn  libdigest-sha-perl              <none>
ii  libdpkg-perl                    1.21.8
ii  libemail-address-xs-perl        1.04-1+b4
ii  libfile-basedir-perl            0.09-1
ii  libfile-find-rule-perl          0.34-1
ii  libfont-ttf-perl                1.06-1.1
ii  libhtml-html5-entities-perl     0.004-1.1
ii  libio-interactive-perl          1.023-1
ii  libio-prompt-tiny-perl          0.003-1
ii  libipc-run3-perl                0.048-2
ii  libjson-maybexs-perl            1.004003-1
ii  liblist-compare-perl            0.55-1
ii  liblist-someutils-perl          0.58-1
ii  liblist-utilsby-perl            0.12-1
ii  libmoo-perl                     2.005004-3
ii  libmoox-aliases-perl            0.001006-2
ii  libnamespace-clean-perl         0.27-1
ii  libpath-tiny-perl               0.122-1
ii  libperlio-gzip-perl             0.19-1+b8
ii  libperlio-utf8-strict-perl      0.009-1+b1
ii  libproc-processtable-perl       0.634-1+b1
ii  libsereal-decoder-perl          4.023+ds-1
ii  libsereal-encoder-perl          4.023+ds-1
ii  libsort-versions-perl           1.62-1
ii  libsyntax-keyword-try-perl      0.27-1
ii  libterm-readkey-perl            2.38-1+b3
ii  libtext-glob-perl               0.11-2
ii  libtext-levenshteinxs-perl      0.03-4+b9
ii  libtext-markdown-discount-perl  0.13-1+b1
ii  libtext-xslate-perl             3.5.9-1+b1
ii  libtime-duration-perl           1.21-1
ii  libtime-moment-perl             0.44-1+b4
ii  libtimedate-perl                2.3300-2
ii  libunicode-utf8-perl            0.62-1+b3
ii  liburi-perl                     5.10-1
ii  libxml-libxml-perl              2.0207+dfsg+really+2.0134-1
ii  libyaml-libyaml-perl            0.83+ds-1+b1
ii  lzip                            1.23-3
ii  lzop                            1.04-2
ii  man-db                          2.10.2-1
ii  patchutils                      0.4.2-1
ii  perl [libencode-perl]           5.34.0-4
ii  t1utils                         1.41-4
ii  unzip                           6.0-26
ii  xz-utils                        5.2.5-2.1

lintian recommends no packages.

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn  binutils-multiarch     <none>
pn  libtext-template-perl  <none>