Hello, I've packaged a piece of my own software which is licenced under GNU GPL version 2. I'm not yet a Debian developer but a developer is going to advocate. One of the things he asked me to do was to ask from debian-policy what to do in situations like this.
lintian complains: $ lintian -i dbmanage_1.0.1-3_i386.changes E: dbmanage: copyright-file-contains-full-gpl-license N: N: The copyright file /usr/share/doc/<pkg>/copyright contains the N: complete text of the GPL. It should refer to the file N: /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL instead. N: Refer to Policy Manual, section 13.6 for details. N: I don't like the idea of licencing my software under a licence I cannot know because it doesn't even exist so I tend to use GPL version 2. So should I just ignore the error message or should there be file /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2? -- #!/usr/bin/perl -w -- Ari Makela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # # http://arska.org/hauva/ # # "Sailing is, after all, a kind of grace, a kind of magic." - Phil Berman