re-vision on the ARB

Allison Randal allison at ubuntu.com
Mon Aug 20 15:26:45 UTC 2012


On 08/17/2012 10:03 AM, Bhavani Shankar R wrote:
> 
> +1 here too. Maybe an automatic license checking mechanism integration
> in arb-lint would reduce the manual part of review to furthermore
> extent I think. (because some of the apps I reviewed had some nitpicks
> in d/copyright or when I ran licensecheck)

Ah, yeah, good idea. It doesn't need to be perfect, just detailed enough
to catch when some file isn't consistent with the license declared in
debian/copyright. I know Kate Stewart was working on some
license-checking tools with Debian last year, I forwarded this along to
her in case she has some ideas to contribute.

Allison



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