"Nelson A. de Oliveira" <[email protected]> writes: > The copyright part is: > > ====== > The Debian packaging is (c) 2009, William Pitcock <[email protected]> > and is licensed under the GPL, see `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'. > ====== > > So if there is a "licensed under the GLP", without any versions, it > should consider that it's valid to use /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL, > right?
The problem is that we're trying to make a computer program understand human text, which is pretty hard. There are unfortunately quite a few different ways of specifying the version. That said, we can give this a shot and see if we can fine-tune it a bit. However, I would also argue that this is really a (minor) bug in the package, since "licensed under the GPL" doesn't have much legal meaning. The packager really should be following the instructions given in the GPL for how to declare that work is licensed under the GPL, which would have resulted in a far more specific statement that would reference a particular version. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
