Dr. Markus Waldeck writes:
> Why is there a copy of the GPL in /usr/share/doc/sysvconfig?
>From the GPL:
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.
The copyright owner requires strict compliance with the GPL which, as
stated above, requires that the .deb include a copy of the GPL. The fact
that Debian includes a copy in /usr/share/common-license/GPL is irrelevant
as the .deb is offered for downloading as a seperate package.
>From the Debian Policy Manual:
Packages distributed under the UCB BSD license, the Artistic license,
the GNU GPL, and the GNU LGPL should refer to the corresponding files
under/usr/share/common-licenses,[82] rather than quoting them in the
copyright file.
Note that it says "should", not "must".
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John Hasler
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