On Sunday 31 August 2008 23:20:32 Russ Allbery wrote: > Raphael Geissert <atomo64@gmail.com> writes: > > The following snippet is pretty common and always, IMHO, wrong: > >> On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General > >> Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'. > > > > It should either refer to GPL-2 or GPL-3. The same applies to GFDL and > > LGPL. > > I made that argument and lots of people disagreed with me. I don't think > this is something we can impose with Lintian until you can build consensus > within the project; many people believe this reference to be just fine for > a package that's covered under "or any later version" terms. > So, what's the way to go here? severity:minor when no "or any later version" is used? and severity:pedantic when it is? Or just the former with the severity of the latter? Note: currently the unversioned file names point to the latest version of the licence. Cheers, -- Raphael Geissert - Debian Maintainer www.debian.org - get.debian.net
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