Package: base-files Version: 6.9 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
The GNU Project (www.gnu.org) released version 3 of the Affero General Public License (AGPL-3) on 19 November 2007. The Debian project has been accepting software released under the APGL-3 into the main archive since December 2008. Yet, the license file is not included in the /usr/share/common-licenses/ directory, which belongs to the base-files package (all versions are affected.) The GNU Affero General Public License is based on the GNU GPL, but has an additional term to allow users who interact with the licensed software over a network to receive the source for that program. We recommend that people consider using the GNU AGPL for any software which will commonly be run over a network. The latest version is version 3. Given the growing importance of AGPLv3+ licensing in free software projects, and its compatibility with the DFSG, the license should be present in the base-files package. The original license for inclusion in the Debian package can be copied from http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl.txt Regards, == hk -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-486 Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages base-files depends on: ii gawk [awk] 1:4.0.1+dfsg-2 ii mawk [awk] 1.3.3-17 base-files recommends no packages. base-files suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
