Re: [PROPOSAL] Disambiguate of Section 12.5, Deprecate GPL/LGPL symlinks

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

+         file.  Packages should not refer to GPL and LGPL symlinks in
+         that directory since different, incompatible versions of these
+         licenses have been published by the Free Software Foundation,
+         hence using the symlinks could lead to ambiguity.

I disagree with this. It should be ok to point to the latest version
of the GPL if the program says "Version X or later". Many programs
do that, and we should not need to change them.

Instead, I think we should amend policy in this way:

  Packages under a fixed, definite version of the GPL should refer to
  the versioned GPL file in /usr/share/common-licenses.