Just a couple of random thoughts...
There are two recurring themes (among others) in this bug report:
* How to make sure users know what "+" means, as in "GPL-2+"
* How to make sure users know where to find a full license
Suppose a tiny README file (uncompressed) is added to
/usr/share/common-licenses. It can explain what the "+" in "GPL-2+"
etc. mean, and even contain a pointer to the copyright-1.0 document.
As for making it easy for a user find the license file, would it be
too complicated to use a standard URI in d/copyright?
So for example a d/copyright file could contain:
License: GPL-2
file:///usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2
or
License: GPL-2+
file:///usr/share/common-licenses/README
file:///usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2
where the README file explains the "+" in "GPL-2+". It would be
improbable for a user to see a URI like that and not realize that it
points to a specific file location on the system.
Thanks,
Paul Hardy
