Bug#431109: [PROPOSAL] Disambiguate of Section 12.5, Deprecate GPL/LGPL symlinks

2007-07-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > AISI, the reason for using the unversioned link is that it means less > work for maintainers (and the work *is* significant when it comes to > lots of packages) who have to update the copyright file every time > license changes. This reason doesn't make

Bug#431109: [PROPOSAL] Disambiguate of Section 12.5, Deprecate GPL/LGPL symlinks

2007-07-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Florian Weimer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070630 10:16]: >> But do we really want to license everything which is "GPL version 2 or >> later" under the GPL version 3? >> And how do we discriminate between "GPL version 2 or later" and "GPL >> version 3 or lat

Bug#431109: [PROPOSAL] Disambiguate of Section 12.5, Deprecate GPL/LGPL symlinks

2007-07-01 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 12:49:58PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Florian Weimer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070630 10:16]: > > * Santiago Vila: > > > > > + file. Packages should not refer to GPL and LGPL symlinks in > > > + that directory since different, incompatible versions of these

Bug#431109: [PROPOSAL] Disambiguate of Section 12.5, Deprecate GPL/LGPL symlinks

2007-07-01 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Jul 1, 2007 at 12:49:58 +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > If it says "version N or later", we should of course point to the > *earliest* version to give users the choice which version they want. > I don't understand this "of course", nor do I understand how the file we point to relates to th

Bug#431109: [PROPOSAL] Disambiguate of Section 12.5, Deprecate GPL/LGPL symlinks

2007-07-01 Thread Andreas Barth
* Florian Weimer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070630 10:16]: > * Santiago Vila: > > > + file. Packages should not refer to GPL and LGPL symlinks in > > + that directory since different, incompatible versions of these > > + licenses have been published by the Free Software Foundati