Bug#633994: debian-policy: confusion over what the license information in the copyright file actually means
The package maintainer wants the following stanza
Copyright: (C) 1995-1998, 2000, 2003-2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License: GFDL-1.1+
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or
any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
Invariant Sections, with the Front-Cover texts being ``A GNU Manual,''
and with the Back-Cover Texts as in (a) below.
.
On Debian systems, the full text of the GNU Free Documentation License
version 1.2 can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GFDL-1.2'.
If it were me I would have them match.
> So to be clear, the claim here is that it's ok to list "License: LGPL-2+"
> (or something of the sort), but have the license stanza contain the text of
> LGPL-3? Or if that's not what you mean, could you please provide a concrete
> example of the usage at issue?
>
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