Package: elinks Version: 0.11.1-1.4 Tags: patch <http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.4/elinks.copyright> <http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.11.1-1.2/elinks.copyright> <http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/e/elinks/elinks_0.10.4-7.1/elinks.copyright> all claim this:
> This program is free software. You may 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, or (at your option) any later > version. A copy of this license is in the file > /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL. However, ELinks 0.11.1 is actually licensed under GNU GPL version 2 only, not any later versions. ELinks used to be licensed under GPLv2 or later, but that was changed on 2004-01-11, before the ELinks 0.10.0 release. In elinks-0.11.1/src/dialogs/info.c: > "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, " > "specifically version 2 of the License."), There is also a further note in elinks-0.11.1/COPYING: > Note that the only valid version of the GPL as far as ELinks is > concerned is _this_ particular version of the license (ie v2, not v2.2 > or v3.x or whatever), unless explicitly stated otherwise. That is at > least the policy for all pasky's contributions and the default - if you > want different policy for your patches, the best way to state it is by > a patch for your AUTHORS entry. > > If pasky likes GPLv3, he might relicence his contributions for GPLv3 > as well. The default policy should probably be that you trust pasky, > Jonas, or the current maintainer of the day to do the right thing (much > like it is in the Linux kernel). But this needs to be yet worked out > and agreed upon. I do not remember seeing any comment from pasky about the final GPLv3, and even if he were willing to relicense ELinks, that would probably require permission from everyone who contributed code or documentation to ELinks after 2004-01-11. So it is not going to happen immediately. Until then, please update the debian/copyright file to specify only version 2 of the GNU General Public License. --- debian/copyright~ 2006-11-28 11:24:36.000000000 +0200 +++ debian/copyright 2007-06-30 20:47:13.000000000 +0300 @@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ This program is free software. You may 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, or (at your option) any later -version. A copy of this license is in the file -/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL. +Software Foundation, specifically version 2 of the License. A copy of this +license is in the file /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.
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