Hi Matthias, On Wednesday 12 December 2007 18:23, Matthias Julius wrote: > Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> writes: > > ./src/gnome-color-chooser.1 says the licence is GPL, which means GPL3, > > while debian/copyright says the software is GPL2+... please fix. > > Does it really mean GPL3? Do I have to compare the release date of a > software with the publishing date of the various GPL versions to > determine which one applies if it is not specified? I don't think this > is reasonable. Nobody ever said legalize is reasonable :-) At least, I haven't heard anyone yet. And yes, if you refer to "the GPL" today, it certainly means GPL3. Also note, that there are two dates you need to keep in mind: 29 June 2007 was the date when http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html was changed and 19 Aug 2007, when the base-files package was updated in Debian unstable. > Are now all packages buggy that reference > /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL instead of GPL-2 because GPL now points > to GPL-3? Yes. > That is probably a large portion of the archive. Yes. Are you volunteering to write a lintian check? Then we can easily add file bugs and track them with a usertag. > the GPL > symlink should be removed alltogether to avoid similar issues when the > next GPL version comes along. Yes. regards, Holger BTW: If you understand german, I highly recommend to watch http://events.ccc.de/congress/2007/Fahrplan/events/2345.en.html - it will be streamed and will be available for download too, but later.
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