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Bug#513946: lintian: should not tag copyright-refers-to-versionless-license-file when using 'GPL-2+'



On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:26:37 -0600 Raphael Geissert wrote:

> > 
> > I suspect there's still arguably a bug in such a package, since this would
> > imply that the upstream license statement wasn't cut and pasted into the
> > debian/copyright file, as is recommended best practice even with the new
> > copyright format.  If it were, that phrase would still be there.
> 
> Exactly. "License: GPL-2+" isn't a replacement of license statement as it has no
> meaning. IANAL but I would say it doesn't mean anything, just like "(C)" is not
> considered to mean "Copyright".

Right, thats why one writes at the end of the file:
License: GPL-2+
 On Debian Systems ... /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL

Regards
Evgeni

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