Re: Software Licenced Under a Specific Version of GPL
On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Steve Greenland wrote:
> On 31-Aug-01, 10:43 (CDT), Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> wrote:
> > As of today, there is only one GPL file. In my opinion it's soon for that.
> > However, if you insist that this has to be done now, then please get
> > policy changed first. For example:
>
> No, we change practice first, then policy.
Are you sure? Hmm, perhaps we should have waited for all packages
moving to /usr/share/doc before making it policy ;-)
By "Get policy changed first" I mean "Make a proposal, get two
seconds, no objections, and wait one week before it's accepted".
I would not object to such proposal, but I will not second it or
propose it myself, because I think it solves a problem which does not
currently exist.
> The file has to be there before policy can tell other packages to use it.
I disagree. After the proposal is approved I can put the file there
before the debian-policy.deb is updated. In the unlikely case I fail
to do that, it would be just a (yourfavouriteseverityhere) bug in
base-files, which in any way should prevent people from following
policy.
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