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

[Helge Kreutzmann]

Hello,
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 06:46:20PM -0500, Karl Berry wrote:
>     > I assume that info is also GPLv2 as I stated in the copyright file, and
> 
> Yes, of course.

Great.

> The man pages are generated with help2man, so they don't really have an
> independently copyrightable existence.  It is not entirely clear to me
> what wording would be better, but I guess:
> 
>   under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
> 
> could become
> 
>   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.

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).

> By the way, I doubt there is anything special about Texinfo in this
> regard.  Anything that uses help2man will presumably have something
> similar.  E.g., cp.1 does not mention the GPL at all ... hmm.
> Well, I don't think I'll make this my problem :).

Well, I am not intending to run through any help2man using app in
Debian and check if the GPL is correctly referenced (which implies
running --version or similar as well).

Thanks for your clarification.

Greetings

           Helge
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