Bug#859617: suspicious-source: incorrect reference to GPL definition of source

Ben Finney bignose at debian.org
Wed Apr 5 09:41:35 UTC 2017


Package: devscripts
Version: 2.17.5
Severity: minor
Tags: patch

The phrase “preferred form of modification” does not refer to a form
of the work. It also does not match the GNU GPL's definition of
“source”.

Instead, the GNU GPL (version 3 §1) defines “source code” as the
“preferred form of the work for making modifications to it”.

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_o__)                                                             1917 |
Ben Finney <bignose at debian.org>
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