Bug#420701: GFDL is now in common-licenses
Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> writes:
> How about fixing the stylistic issue of saying 'For example, ..., and so
> on.'? Actually, the filenames doesn't strike me as examples at all.
>
> How about 'In particular, /usr/..., respectively.' instead? And make
> sure the paths are given in the same order as the text.
>
> Btw, the path to the LGPL v2.0 license is missing.
Here is a new patch that incorporates this change as well as the fix for
#431109. If anyone has any objections, please raise them; otherwise, this
will go into the next release, since the current language is pretty
clearly broken and this is at least an improvement.
--- orig/policy.sgml
+++ mod/policy.sgml
@@ -8653,21 +8653,21 @@
<p>
Packages distributed under the UCB BSD license, the Artistic
- license, the GNU GPL, and the GNU LGPL, should refer to the
- corresponding files under
+ license, the GNU GPL (version 2 or 3), the GNU LGPL (versions
+ 2, 2.1, or 3), and the GNU FDL (version 1.2) should refer to
+ the corresponding files under
<file>/usr/share/common-licenses</file>,<footnote>
- <p>
- For example,
- <file>/usr/share/common-licenses/Artistic</file>,
+ <p>
+ In particular,
<file>/usr/share/common-licenses/BSD</file>,
- <file>/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL</file>,
- <file>/usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL</file>,
- <file>/usr/share/common-licenses/GFDL</file>,
- <file>/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2</file>, and
- <file>/usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL-2.1</file>, and so
- on. Note that the GFDL is new here, and the license file
- may not yet be in place in
- <file>/usr/share/common-licenses/GFDL</file>.
+ <file>/usr/share/common-licenses/Artistic</file>,
+ <file>/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2</file>,
+ <file>/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3</file>,
+ <file>/usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL-2</file>,
+ <file>/usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL-2.1</file>,
+ <file>/usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL-3</file>, and
+ <file>/usr/share/common-licenses/GFDL-1.2</file>,
+ respectively.
</p>
</footnote> rather than quoting them in the copyright
file.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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