On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > The relevant section in the policy says that "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, rather than quoting them in the > copyright file." > > The base-files package distributes various versions of the GPL and LGPL, > and clearly the GPL 3 is a version of the GPL in spirit and the legal > sense, and as far as the FSF is concerned, it is "the GPL" now (the > others are "old versions"), so there is no need to change anything in > the policy to add a GPL-3 file. I think it would be silly to expect > the policy editors to add "(and that includes version 3)" to the > wording.
The wording will not change, but the meaning *will*. I do not decide policy. It should be at least debian-policy who decides about accepting the GPL3 or not. Currently, I'm considering a debian-policy ammendment with 0-patch which just changes the *meaning*. Would you second it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
