On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 11:20:11AM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Package: base-files
> Version: 3.1.13
> Severity: normal
> 
> The files /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL and /usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL
> contain a number of formatting and minor spelling differences compared to the
> text files distributed by the FSF at <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt> and
> <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.txt>.  You should probably distribute the
> originals.

hmm: if the files in /usr/share were copied from the same source at an
earlier date, they're just as qualified to be denoted "originals".

Perhaps you had some other term in mind, such as "revised" or "updated",
but "originals" is inappropriate.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
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