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Re: Bug#380128: info: Incorrect (?) (unclear) copyright statement
From: |
Karl Berry |
Subject: |
Re: Bug#380128: info: Incorrect (?) (unclear) copyright statement |
Date: |
Tue, 8 Aug 2006 12:55:49 -0500 |
> 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