The basefiles package doesn't have a copy of GPL version 3 in usr/share/doc/common-licenses. Should it have one, or is a link to the license on the GNU website as in the output of coreutils deemed sufficient? ls (GNU coreutils) 6.10 Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> Andy