Package: debian-reference-common Version: 1.08-3 Severity: minor
Hi! Debian-reference copyright notice reads: This document may used under the terms the GNU General Public License version 2 or higher. Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this document provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies. Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this document under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one. Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this document into another language, under the above conditions for modified versions, except that this permission notice may be included in translations approved by the Free Software Foundation instead of in the original English. [See /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2 for text of GPL v2] The work is thus released under the GNU GPL (v2 or later), but some phrases taken from a different license seem to have leaked into the copyright notice. These statements have nothing to do with the GPL and it's not clear if they are intended as additional permissions (some of them, at least, would be unnecessary in that case) or as something else. The canonical copyright notice for a work released under the GNU GPL v2 or later is something along the lines of Copyright (c) 2001-2004 Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This work is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This work is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA Could you please clarify the copyright notice? Thank you very much! -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.31 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
