Bug#1535: GPL gone LGPL exist
On Tue, 3 Oct 1995, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Erick Branderhorst writes ("Bug#1535: GPL gone LGPL exist"):
>[...]
> This is very interesting. The same thing has happened to my system.
>
> The file /usr/doc/copyright/GPL doesn't seem to be in any of the
> packages on the src.doc.ic.ac.uk mirror of ftp.debian.org, and it
> isn't mentioned in any of the /var/lib/dpkg/info/* files on my system.
>
> I conjecture that there was once a package that contained this file
> (by mistake) and that the package maintainer removed it.
I audited some old packages I have lying around, and found this file
in dpkg-0.93.42-0 and dpkg-0.93.42.2-0.
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