On 26-Jul-09, at 3:24 PM, david.comay at sun.com wrote: >> A number of packages have a copyright file that basically says that >> this software is licensed under the GPL or LGPL and that you should >> have got a copy of the license text "with the program" >> >> To me this isn't the license and in such cases we should also >> include the license text in the copyright file (or at least include >> gpl.txt in the package). That's my view but I can see it may be a >> bone of contention. >> >> What's the consensus on this? Is the following text enough or do we >> need to add the license text? > > Although we've been inconsistent with this in SFW, the full GPL > license > text (with the usual preamble before it) should be used in the SVR4 > copyright file rather than the shortened form.
Understood, I'll update my webrev accordingly -JohnS
