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Bug#431109: [PROPOSAL] Disambiguate of Section 12.5, Deprecate GPL/LGPL symlinks



> This proposal does essentialy two things:
> 
>   - Disambiguate GPL/LGPL versioning requirement by extending it to any DFSG
>   compatible version the FSF may publish.
> 
>   - Deprecate use of symlinks, since they're a source of problems (as exposed
>   by GPLv3, see http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2007/06/msg00234.html)

Symlinks are not a problem. The real problem are hardcoded references
to "GPL" when they should have been references to GPL-2.

For programs which are under "GPL v2 or later" or "GPL v3 or later"
(most of them, if I'm not mistaken), the symlink is useful, so it
should be kept.



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