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[Emmet Hikory <persia@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This is a side effect of the common practice of not including COPYING,
but rather documenting things in e.g. /usr/share/doc/gpredict/copyright.
In the case of GPLv2, a common file is shipped (/usr/share/common-
licenses/GPL-2) to save the space of including a separate copy of the
license for *every* package under this license (as this is a fairly
large number).  I believe the upstream behaviour is absolutely correct,
and does not need modification.  I believe that since COPYING is not
shipped, it needs a distribution-level patch to have the menu item open
/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2 to show the license.

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Menu item Help -> License doesn't do anything; missing COPYRIGHT file
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/343430
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Status in “gpredict” package in Ubuntu: Triaged

Bug description:
Binary package hint: gpredict

In gpredict, if I choose License from the Help menu, nothing happens. In the terminal where I started gpredict I see this:-

2009/03/16 00:20:07|2|2|gpredict_help_show_txt: Failed to load /usr/share/gpredict/COPYING (No such file or directory)

It's right too..

alan@wopr:~$ ls -l /usr/share/gpredict/
total 100
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   695 2008-02-13 18:58 AUTHORS
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 61742 2008-02-13 18:58 ChangeLog
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 2009-03-16 00:09 data
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10763 2008-02-13 18:58 NEWS
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  4614 2008-02-13 18:58 README
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1172 2008-02-13 18:58 TODO

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gpredict 0.9.0-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gpredict
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-9-generic i686