> Please don't include the GPL (currently in /usr/share/doc/whizzytex/GPL.gz);
> on Debian systems it belongs in common licenses.
>
> For extra credit, you could update lintian to check for this error.
> Perhaps it was missed because it was compressed?
I don't think this is going to be an easy automatic check. We need to
check content of the file, not the filename. It just happened that
whizzytex upstream decided to include the file COPYING renamed as GPL.
On a completely unrelated note, I wasn't quite aware of this, but it's
not identical.
$ diff -u /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL GPL
--- /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL 2005-06-16 23:32:00.000000000 +0900
+++ GPL 2002-02-22 16:55:43.000000000 +0900
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 2, June 1991
- Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
- 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
+ Copyright (C) 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@
END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
- How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
+ Appendix: How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest
possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@
the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
<one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
- Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>
+ Copyright (C) 19yy <name of author>
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -305,15 +305,14 @@
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
-
+ Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this
when it starts in an interactive mode:
- Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year name of author
+ Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) 19yy name of author
Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.
regards,
junichi
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