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Difference between copyright and license



Hi,

I often see packages containing something like the following in the
copyright file:

=================================================================================
Copyright:

This software is distributed under the GNU General Public License,
which can be found at /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.
=================================================================================

Instead, it should rather look like:

=================================================================================
Copyright:

Copyright 2003, 2004 Heinz Ketchup <heinz@ketchup.tv>

License:

This software is distributed under the GNU General Public License,
which can be found at /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.
=================================================================================

Thanks for considering.

[Feel free to post to debian-legal@lists.d.o if you want to discuss
this.]

bye,
  Roland

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