License text in binary packages

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi

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> /path/to/somewhere/GPLv2      (for GPL v2 only)
> /path/to/somewhere/LGPLv2
> /path/to/somewhere/GPL-newest (for GPL v2 or newer)
> /path/to/somewhere/...other standard licenses
>
> Also... what is Debian's policy about all this? 

Debian has /usr/share/common-licenses/<insert license> and every package 
has a copyright file which points to this

regards
Rahul