Bug#517191: One example for #517191
"Nelson A. de Oliveira" <naoliv@debian.org> writes:
> The copyright part is:
>
> ======
> The Debian packaging is (c) 2009, William Pitcock <nenolod@dereferenced.org>
> and is licensed under the GPL, see `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'.
> ======
>
> So if there is a "licensed under the GLP", without any versions, it
> should consider that it's valid to use /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL,
> right?
The problem is that we're trying to make a computer program understand
human text, which is pretty hard. There are unfortunately quite a few
different ways of specifying the version. That said, we can give this a
shot and see if we can fine-tune it a bit.
However, I would also argue that this is really a (minor) bug in the
package, since "licensed under the GPL" doesn't have much legal meaning.
The packager really should be following the instructions given in the GPL
for how to declare that work is licensed under the GPL, which would have
resulted in a far more specific statement that would reference a
particular version.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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