Re: Copy of GFDL in copyright?

[Simon Josefsson]

Russ Allbery <address@hidden> writes:

> Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Russ, I just upgraded debian-shishi CVS for latest Shishi, and also
>> removed the copy of GFDL and pointed at /usr/share/common-licenses/GFDL
>> instead.  Maybe I shouldn't have done the last step?  I noticed your
>> earlier commit:
>
> [...]
>
>> I'm not sure I follow the intention: either just the licenses mentioned
>> in 12.5 are OK to substitute with a reference, or all common licenses
>> distributed in base-files are OK to substitute with a reference.  The
>> latter seems more flexible to me.  Which is it?
>
> Policy is currently out of sync with base-files.  We'll fix it in the next
> Policy upload.  What you did is fine.

Ok, great.

>> Btw, I suspect we should wait with any upload until the GPLv3 license
>> has been reviewed by debian, and possibly also installed into
>> /usr/share/common-licenses/?
>
> Yes, that would be my preference.  I'm not really sure what that process
> entails, though, or how long it will take.

There's no hurry.  Hopefully until then I've even had time to work on
the actual code rather than changing licenses..

/Simon