Re: Software Licenced Under a Specific Version of GPL

["Jonathan D. Proulx" <jon@ai.mit.edu>]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 11:12:41AM +0300, Ari Makela wrote:

:lintian complains:
:
:$ lintian -i dbmanage_1.0.1-3_i386.changes
:E: dbmanage: copyright-file-contains-full-gpl-license
:N:
:N:   The copyright file /usr/share/doc/<pkg>/copyright contains the
:N:   complete text of the GPL. It should refer to the file
:N:   /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL instead.
:N:   Refer to Policy Manual, section 13.6 for details.
:N:
:
:I don't like the idea of licencing my software under a licence I
:cannot know because it doesn't even exist so I tend to use GPL version
:2. 

$ head -3 /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL
                    GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
                       Version 2, June 1991

-Jon