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Re: Bug#436105: suggestion to add GPL-1 as a common licence



-=| gregor herrmann, Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 12:50:36AM +0200 |=-
> On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:54:45 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > I therefore propose adding GPL version 1 to the list of licenses 
> > said by
> > Policy to be in common-licenses and asking Santiago to include a copy in
> > base-files.  I'm not including a diff since it would just create merge
> > conflicts with the BSD diff proposed earlier today and because it's fairly
> > obvious, although I can if people would prefer.
> > 
> > Objections or seconds?
> 
> Seconded.

Seconded too.

I must admit I am very surprised GPL-1 is not in common-licenses.

> > Copying debian-perl on this message since that's the set of developers who
> > are most affected by this.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> (Although that means some changes on our part, in dh-make-perl and in
> most of our packages :))

Reading the above, I am left with the impression that our packages 
should point to GPL-1 one way or another, so having to change a few 
words is a lot less burden than including the license text in 
debian/copyright.

Thanks for the heads up! I'll take care of dh-make-perl.

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