Sorry for reporting then, but as far as I am aware and unless my english is very bad (this might be true) according to the link that you posted the GNU foundation explicitly tells developers to add the well known:
---------------------- one line to give the program's name and an idea of what it does. Copyright (C) yyyy name of author This program 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 program 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 program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. ---------------------- Considering that every other application has it you might understand why it strikes as a little odd to use an entire text panel just to put 'GPL 2+' and not to tell what about it (it's like writing 'Vroomfondel'... we all know you it is, but what is he doing there?). -- [Maverick] License text missing https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/656628 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs