Package: base-files
Version: 4.0.1
Severity: normal

/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL now contains GPLv3.  However, some
packages are explicitly licensed under GPLv2 only and, due to Debian
policy, do not contain a copy of the license.  From GPLv2:

  1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's
  source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you
  conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate
  copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the
  notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty;
  and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License
  along with the Program.

As far as I can tell Debian is no longer providing recipients with
copies of GPLv2 as required by the above-quoted paragraph.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18n (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages base-files depends on:
ii  base-passwd               3.5.13         Debian base system master password
ii  gawk [awk]                1:3.1.5.dfsg-4 GNU awk, a pattern scanning and pr
ii  mawk [awk]                1.3.3-11       a pattern scanning and text proces

base-files recommends no packages.

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