Bug#291460: Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in /usr/share/common-licenses
Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@gwolf.org> writes:
> _One_ thing that makes me favor common-licenses is being able to do
> wide checks to count the number of packages saying to adhere to a
> given license - As I said, nothing guarantees that the COPYING file in
> my (upstream) package is the same as in yours (for the very popular
> GPL2), we just accept it as such.
Well, it's a violation of copyright law for someone other than the FSF to
change the text of the GPL and redistribute the results:
Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. <http://fsf.org/>
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
So that's a more reasonable assumption than it might appear on first
glance.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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