Bug#756574: lintian: Please consider removing the tag license-problem-gfdl-non-official-text.

[Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.25
Severity: minor

Dear Lintian maintainers,

thanks for your work on Lintian.  I use it a lot, including the pedantic tags.

For one of them, license-problem-gfdl-non-official-text, I have strong doubts if it will
ever be useful.  In my understanding from the statistics from the Lintian website,
hundreds if not thousands of upstream authors would need to be convinced to uppercase
their GFDL statements.  I think that it will never happen fully.

For that reason, please remove the tag license-problem-gfdl-non-official-text, which is
distracting and has no chances to have a significant effect.

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan