Re: Shouldn't /usr/doc/*/copyright actually contain copyright information?
On 17 Oct 1999, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> 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.
Sounds right to me. (My brain isn't fully adjusted to FHS yet ;-)
Luck,
Dwarf
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