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

[Norbert Preining]

Hi Karl!

Sorry to bother you with all this. At the end of the email there are
some unrelated infos for you.

On Mon, 07 Aug 2006, Karl Berry wrote:
>   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.
> 
> If that sounds ok to you, I'll ask Brendan (bug-help2man) to change the
> default.

Ok, I see. Let's ignore this for now. 

The point left ...

On Die, 08 Aug 2006, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> That sound fine for me.  But also if you issue:
> info --version
> you'll see:
> Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> There is NO warranty.  You may redistribute this software
> under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
> For more information about these matters, see the files named COPYING.
> 
> 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).

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

Best wishes

Norbert

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