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Package: base-files
Version: 4.0.1
Severity: normal
/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL now contains GPLv3. However, some
packages are explicitly licensed under GPLv2 only and, due to Debian
policy, do not contain a copy of the license. From GPLv2:
1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's
source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you
conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate
copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the
notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty;
and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License
along with the Program.
As far as I can tell Debian is no longer providing recipients with
copies of GPLv2 as required by the above-quoted paragraph.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18n (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages base-files depends on:
ii base-passwd 3.5.13 Debian base system master password
ii gawk [awk] 1:3.1.5.dfsg-4 GNU awk, a pattern scanning and pr
ii mawk [awk] 1.3.3-11 a pattern scanning and text proces
base-files recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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No, the GPLv2 is not missing. It's still in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2
and it's still provided by base-files.
It's just that GPL now points to GPLv3, but we all knew such thing
would happen sooner or later. We can't (and shouldn't) keep the GPL
pointing to GPLv2 forever.
As far as I can tell Debian is no longer providing recipients with
copies of GPLv2 as required by the above-quoted paragraph.
We are doing that anyway by providing the GPLv2 in the source code.
The GPL in base-files is for informative purposes only. We comply
with the GPLv2 by providing the GPLv2 in the source code.
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