This is a side effect of the common practice of not including COPYING, but rather documenting things in e.g. /usr/share/doc/gpredict/copyright. In the case of GPLv2, a common file is shipped (/usr/share/common- licenses/GPL-2) to save the space of including a separate copy of the license for *every* package under this license (as this is a fairly large number). I believe the upstream behaviour is absolutely correct, and does not need modification. I believe that since COPYING is not shipped, it needs a distribution-level patch to have the menu item open /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2 to show the license.
-- Menu item Help -> License doesn't do anything; missing COPYRIGHT file https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/343430 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu ham developers, which is subscribed to gpredict in ubuntu. Status in “gpredict” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: gpredict In gpredict, if I choose License from the Help menu, nothing happens. In the terminal where I started gpredict I see this:- 2009/03/16 00:20:07|2|2|gpredict_help_show_txt: Failed to load /usr/share/gpredict/COPYING (No such file or directory) It's right too.. a...@wopr:~$ ls -l /usr/share/gpredict/ total 100 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 695 2008-02-13 18:58 AUTHORS -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 61742 2008-02-13 18:58 ChangeLog drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-03-16 00:09 data -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10763 2008-02-13 18:58 NEWS -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4614 2008-02-13 18:58 README -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1172 2008-02-13 18:58 TODO ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Package: gpredict 0.9.0-0ubuntu1 ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gpredict Uname: Linux 2.6.28-9-generic i686 _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-hams-devel Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-hams-devel More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
