Re: GPLv3 x lintian
"Luis Furquim" <luisfurquim@gmail.com> writes:
> I installed a debian-40r3 in a kvm machine. Now I am customizing the
> copyright file at the $PACKAGEDIR/debian/ directory. As dh_make
> generates this file refering to the GPL-2 I have changed it to refer to
> the GPL-3 and then I took a look at the /usr/share/common-licenses
> directory and found no GPL-3 document. I found a GPL and a GPL-2
> documents, but the GPL and GPL-2 documents are exactly equal as checked
> with diff.
>
> So, where's the GPL-3 document? It will be there only if I install a
> debian package whose license is GPL-3? I installed only a basic
> system without any graphic environment.
The current stable release of Debian does not include the GPLv3 in
common-licenses. It will be included in base-files in that directory in
the next stable release of Debian (lenny).
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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