Re: Bug#431109: [PROPOSAL] Disambiguate of Section 12.5
> But, AFAIUI, the purpose of this informational sentence is to comply
> with the GNU GPL v2, which states, in Section 1:
>
> | give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License
> | along with the Program.
>
> and then includes (by reference to Section 1) this same restriction in
> the successive Sections.
>
> As a consequence, for a work licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL v2
> or later, Debian should give a copy of the GNU GPL *v2*, which it does
> in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.
Both ways of doing it are in compliance. When a program is dual-licensed under
GPL-2 or "any later version", you can adhere to GPL-3 for the purpose of
compliing with Section 1 (or whatever section it is in GPL-3), without this
preventing our users from adhering to GPL-2 if they wish.
(IANAL, etc)
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