Hello, On Fri, Dec 29 2017, Russ Allbery wrote: > I agree that we should probably add /usr/share/common-licenses to the > default motd. Currently, we say: > > The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free > software; the exact distribution terms for each program are > described in the individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright. > > and could just add something like: > > The full texts of common licenses used by multiple packages can be > found in /usr/share/common-licenses. > > Then, in a README in /usr/share/common-licenses, we could say > something very short like: > > References to one of these licenses with a + appended, such as > "GPL-2+", indicate the choice of the named license file or any > later version of the same license. I would like to append an explicit "See the README file in that directory for more information." to the motd addition. Otherwise, LGTM. -- Sean Whitton
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