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Bug#420701: GFDL is now in common-licenses



Russ Allbery wrote:
Here is a proposed wording patch.  Unless there are any objections, I'll
commit this to my repository.

--- orig/policy.sgml
+++ mod/policy.sgml
@@ -8653,8 +8653,8 @@
<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, the GNU LGPL, and the GNU FDL should refer
+	  to the corresponding files under
 	  <file>/usr/share/common-licenses</file>,<footnote>
             <p>
               For example,

@@ -8665,9 +8665,7 @@
               <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>. + on.
             </p>
           </footnote> rather than quoting them in the copyright
file.

I think we should add also the license version in the first paragraph,
as is stated in the second part, not to confuse users.

+ license, the GNU GPL (v. 2), the GNU LGPL (v. 2 and v. 2.1), and the GNU FDL should refer
+	  to the corresponding files under

ciao
	cate



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