On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 01:20:21PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > 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. > > I obviously don't know every detail of the history of the files on both > sides, but I strongly suspect, for example, that the FSF address change > was made by editing the existing files in the package rather than > downloading the updated copies from the FSF; hence the spelling > differences like "St" vs "Street".
Not really - I checked some reference copies that I have at hand and see that it was spelled "St" last year. > Be that as it may, Debian should, in my opinion, distribute whatever the > FSF is distributing at the time, just to decrease the overall > randomness in the universe. In an ideal universe, upstream would have a changelog noting when and what was changed. There's probably one - someplace. I'd suggest that someone find out rather than just copying whatever's on the web site. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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