[debiandev]

This is a reason for Debian to exists.

Licenses cannot be reviewed automatically in a reliable way. Debian developers review the licenses and store them in a machine-parsable file.

[correct_horse]

Are you saying that standard licenses cannot be checked for compatibility automatically? Or that arbitrary homebrew licenses cannot be checked automatically?

[0x0]

Didn't Debian push a stable security update for Ghostscript that changed the license over to AGPL some time ago?

[detaro]

Did they break the license meta data while doing so?