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Bug#277853: marked as done (kdelibs3: GPL_V2 Breaks License by Not Being Verbatim.)

Your message dated Sun, 7 Jan 2007 15:46:11 +0100
with message-id <200701071546.17661.debian@pusling.com>
and subject line Closing old woody bugs
has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done.

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Package: kdelibs3
Version: 4:2.2.2-13.woody.12
Severity: normal
File: GPL_V2

Hi,

    $ cd /usr/share/apps/LICENSES
    $ ls -l GPL_V2
    -rw-r--r--    1 root     root        15131 Aug  5  2000 GPL_V2
    $ md5sum GPL_V2
    cbbd794e2a0a289b9dfcc9f513d1996e  GPL_V2
    $ sed -n -e 1,7p -e \$p GPL_V2
    		    GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
    		       Version 2, June 1991
    
     Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
                              675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
     Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
     of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
    		     END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
    $

I've been looking for a copy of the GNU GPL to use.  I thought I'd found
it in the above file but it's an incomplete copy of the GNU GPL.

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLOmitPreamble says

    Can I omit the preamble of the GPL, or the instructions for how to
    use it on your own programs, to save space?

    The preamble and instructions are integral parts of the GNU GPL and
    may not be omitted. In fact, the GPL is copyrighted, and its license
    permits only verbatim copying of the entire GPL. (You can use the
    legal terms to make another license but it won't be the GNU GPL.)

    The preamble and instructions add up to some 5000 characters, less
    than 1/3 of the GPL's total size. They will not make a substantial
    fractional change in the size of a software package unless the
    package itself is quite small. In that case, you may as well use a
    simple all-permissive license rather than the GNU GPL.

In GPL_V2 the license has been truncated at `END OF TERMS AND
CONDITIONS' breaking its license.

I haven't checked the other contents of this directory.

-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux dayna 2.4.18-dayna.2.6 #1 Sun Jul 4 11:06:01 BST 2004 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=

Versions of packages kdelibs3 depends on:
ii  kdelibs3-bin         4:2.2.2-13.woody.12 KDE core binaries (binary files)
ii  kdelibs3-bin [kdelib 4:2.2.2-13.woody.12 KDE core binaries (binary files)
ii  libbz2-1.0           1.0.2-1             A high-quality block-sorting file 
ii  libc6                2.3.2.ds1-13        GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libfam0              2.6.6.1-5.2         client library to control the FAM 
ii  libjpeg62            6b-5                The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libpcre3             3.4-1.1             Philip Hazel's Perl Compatible Reg
ii  libpng2              1.0.12-3.woody.7    PNG library - runtime
ii  libqt2               3:2.3.1-22          Qt GUI Library (runtime version).
ii  libstdc++2.10-glibc2 1:2.95.4-11woody1   The GNU stdc++ library
ii  libtiff3g            3.5.5-6             Tag Image File Format library
ii  libxml2              2.4.19-4woody1      GNOME XML library
ii  libxslt1             1.0.16-0.1          XSLT processing library
ii  xbase-clients        4.1.0-16woody3      miscellaneous X clients
ii  xlibs                4.1.0-16woody3      X Window System client libraries
ii  zlib1g               1:1.2.1.1-3         compression library - runtime

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This bug is a old bug in debian woody that is fixed long ago, and debian woody 
is no longer supported, so closing this bug.
kdelibs3 is gone.
qt2 is gone (and qt3 uses different methods for gl, for fonts and for other 
tihngs)


/Sune
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Genius, I'm not able to save the graphic mother board from the options within 
Photoshop 6.8, how does it work?

The point is that you neither can ever boot with a software, nor should digit 
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system.

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