Re: Shouldn't /usr/doc/*/copyright actually contain copyright information?
Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net> writes:
> While this may be what Policy says, actual practice is somewhat different
> for those packages under either the GPL, LGPL, Artistic, and BSD licenses.
> These packages mearly reference the actual copy of the license in
> /usr/doc/copyright. (bit of a misnomer, as these are all licenses ;-)
FYI: For backward compatibility, there are symlinks from
/usr/doc/copyright to those licenses, yes. But the actual licenses
now reside in /usr/share/common-licenses.
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