[Bug 469514] Review Request: debmirror - debian partial mirror script

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Simon Wesp <cassmodiah at fedoraproject.org> changed:

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--- Comment #35 from Simon Wesp <cassmodiah at fedoraproject.org>  2009-04-09 10:12:27 EDT ---
Debmirror released: 23. January 2007
GPLv3 released: 29. June 2007

the copyrightfile of debmirror says:
License: The debmirror script is licensed under the terms of the GNU
         General Public License (see /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL).

x> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   5 2009-03-05 20:57 /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL
-> GPL-3
This file is linked with GPLv3 in debian stable, testing and sid/experimental.

Debian says with the link to the actual gpl that this file is lincensed under
GPL(actual_version) or higher. If today comes a GPLv4 the "debian license
package" will be updated to GPL-> GPL-4 ( I asked Alexander "formorer" Wirth of
the Debian Project). 

So it is in my (and Alexander's) view GPLv3+, even GPLv3 was later released
than debmirror. I think, that GPLv2+ was right before the link switched to
GPLv3.

I'm not really schooled in license things, maybe I'm totally wrong. I think
this should be clarified by people who knows best, so I added a legal blocker!

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