Re: Bug#431109: [PROPOSAL] Disambiguate of Section 12.5, Deprecate GPL/LGPL symlinks
- To: Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org>, Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>, 431109@bugs.debian.org, Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>, Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>, debian-legal@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Bug#431109: [PROPOSAL] Disambiguate of Section 12.5, Deprecate GPL/LGPL symlinks
- From: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
- Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 14:15:50 +0200
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20070701121506.GC18228@patate.is-a-geek.org>
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On Sun, Jul 1, 2007 at 12:49:58 +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
> If it says "version N or later", we should of course point to the
> *earliest* version to give users the choice which version they want.
>
I don't understand this "of course", nor do I understand how the file we
point to relates to the right our users have. If a piece of software is
GPLv2 or later, that doesn't change just because debian/copyright points
to GPLv3...
Cheers,
Julien
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