> But, AFAIUI, the purpose of this informational sentence is to comply > with the GNU GPL v2, which states, in Section 1: > > | give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License > | along with the Program. > > and then includes (by reference to Section 1) this same restriction in > the successive Sections. > > As a consequence, for a work licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL v2 > or later, Debian should give a copy of the GNU GPL *v2*, which it does > in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.
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