[Maverick] License text missing

[Federico Vera]

Binary package hint: gnome-system-monitor

The license text is missing from the latest gnome-system-monitor.
In case it matters I'm using 64-bit Maverick

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: gnome-system-monitor 2.28.1-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Oct 7 22:57:55 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release Candidate amd64 (20100928)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-system-monitor

[RedSingularity (redsingularity)]

The license is not missing it is there. GPLv2+ is the correct license. (General Public License)

You can verify it at the following site....
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

[Federico Vera (fedevera)]

Sorry for reporting then, but as far as I am aware and unless my english is very bad (this might be true) according to the link that you posted the GNU foundation explicitly tells developers to add the well known:

----------------------
one line to give the program's name and an idea of what it does.
Copyright (C) yyyy name of author

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
----------------------

Considering that every other application has it you might understand why it strikes as a little odd to use an entire text panel just to put 'GPL 2+' and not to tell what about it (it's like writing 'Vroomfondel'... we all know you it is, but what is he doing there?).

[RedSingularity (redsingularity)]

I understand why you would think this to be the case and I wonder myself why they didn't add more. Since this is more of a question than a bug I am going to move it to the Questions area. Feel free to follow up on it in there and see if you get an answer to this. I will do the same as I am interested in an answer as well. Thanks for taking the time to report this though!