On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 10:21:25 +0200 (CEST) Santiago Vila wrote: [...] > In other words, I think it would be ok if our copyright files were > worded like this: > > This program is free software. It is under GPL version 2 or later. On > Debian systems, the latest GPL version is in > /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL. But, AFAIUI, the purpose of this informational sentence is to comply with the GNU GPL v2, which states, in Section 1: | give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License | along with the Program. and then includes (by reference to Section 1) this same restriction in the successive Sections. As a consequence, for a work licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL v2 or later, Debian should give a copy of the GNU GPL *v2*, which it does in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2. Hence I think the informational sentence should be "On Debian systems, the GNU GPL version 2 is in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2", for both works under GPL v2 only and works under GPL v2 or later. -- http://frx.netsons.org/doc/nanodocs/testing_workstation_install.html Need to read a Debian testing installation walk-through? ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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