Hi Karl!
We got notified that info and its man page refer to GPL without v2,
while the COPYING file refers to GPLv2.
On Don, 27 Jul 2006, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> The file /usr/share/doc/info/copyright contains:
> 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
> the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
> any later version.
>
> ...
>
> On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General
> Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL' file.
>
>
> However, both the man page for info as well as info clearly state:
>
> Copyright C 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. There is NO warranty.
> You may redistribute this software under the terms of the GNU General
> Public License. For more information about these matters, see the
> files named COPYING.
>
> and
>
> There is NO warranty. You may redistribute this software
> under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
> For more information about these matters, see the files named COPYING.
>
>
> Since the file COPYING is not shipped by Debian, I could not check there.
[...]
> Given the authorship, I assume this is an (consistent) oversight in the
> source for both the man page and the programm itself. For clarity,
> COPYING should be checked.
>
> I suggest the following:
> *Contact upstream and ask to clarify
> *Patch both the man page and the programm to refer to
> /usr/share/doc/info/copyright
> instead of the file "COPYING" so that the reader is drawn to a file
> actually shipped in the package (or, alternativly, ship COPYING as
> well).
I assume that info is also GPLv2 as I stated in the copyright file, and
as specified in the COPYING file.
So is it ok that I patch the info man page and program to give this more
specific version GPLv2?
Thanks a lot and all the best!
Norbert
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