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Re: Bug#431109: [PROPOSAL] Disambiguate of Section 12.5



Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com> writes:
> On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 12:17:00AM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
>> 
>> 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.

> On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 10:21:25AM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
>> In other words, I think it would be ok if our copyright files were worded
>> like this:
>>
>> This program is free software. It is under GPL version 2 or later. On Debian
>> systems, the latest GPL version is in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

> Ok, new proposed patch, incorporating these fixes.

I think that this Policy bug has been addressed by the current version of
Policy, which no longer mentions the unversioned files at all.  Please let
me know if you disagree; otherwise, I'll close this bug.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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