Russ, I just upgraded debian-shishi CVS for latest Shishi, and also removed the copy of GFDL and pointed at /usr/share/common-licenses/GFDL instead. Maybe I shouldn't have done the last step? I noticed your earlier commit:
* Include a copy of the GNU Free Documentation License 1.2 in debian/copyright as required by Policy 12.5. Policy 12.5 says: 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. However, [82] says: For example, /usr/share/common-licenses/Artistic, /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD, /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL, /usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL, /usr/share/common-licenses/GFDL, /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2, and /usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL-2.1, and so on. Note that the GFDL is new here, and the license file may not yet be in place in /usr/share/common-licenses/GFDL. I'm not sure I follow the intention: either just the licenses mentioned in 12.5 are OK to substitute with a reference, or all common licenses distributed in base-files are OK to substitute with a reference. The latter seems more flexible to me. Which is it? Maybe the policy has changed in this area since you made the change (2006-11-05) too. Btw, I suspect we should wait with any upload until the GPLv3 license has been reviewed by debian, and possibly also installed into /usr/share/common-licenses/? /Simon _______________________________________________ Help-shishi mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-shishi
