Re: Bug#380128: info: Incorrect (?) (unclear) copyright statement

[Karl Berry]

    > That sound fine for me.  But also if you issue:
    > info --version

Oh.  My mistake.  help2man just includes the output of --version, I
forgot that.

    > Also here the "version 2 or (at your option) any later version" is
    > missing. Thats what caused me to open this bug: both the man page *and*
    > the program claim only GPL (which implies version 1).

I'm not sure if making that inference is 100% necessary :).

The thing is, that text for --version comes straight from the GNU coding
standards.  I wouldn't want to change it without consulting rms (and
changing standards.texi).  Sigh.  Is it worth it?

By the way, virtually every GNU package seems to do --version a slightly
different way, and I haven't found any that explicitly say GPL v2; many
don't even mention the GPL at all.  I expect the situation is even more
chaotic for non-GNU packages.  So changing Texinfo is just the tip of
the iceberg ...

    Is it ok for you that I patch info in the Debian version (4.8 currently)
    to output this additional text?

No, I'm afraid I don't think that's a good idea, as above ...

Thanks,
Karl