Re: [PROPOSAL] Full text of GPL must be included
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- Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Full text of GPL must be included
- From: Brian Mays <brian@debian.org>
- Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2000 09:56:30 -0500
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20001203145631.E9600DF5F@ariel.local.net>
- In-reply-to: Message from Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> of "Mon, 04 Dec 2000 00:43:36 +1000." <20001204004336.B18858@azure.humbug.org.au>
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Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> wrote:
> Personally, I doubt that the .dsc would be copyrightable: it doesn't
> seem likely to have any novel component in and of itself.
Well, I was considering the .dsc file to be part of a copyrightable whole,
not a copyrightable entity in itself. It's not worth worrying about.
> Another thing that it might be sensible for Debian to do, which
> I don't think has been mentioned explicitly would be to provide
> the common licenses (GPL, LGPL, Artistic, MIT, BSD) on the
> archive explicitly, as the FSF does with ftp.gnu.org:/gnu/GPL and
> ftp.gnu.org/gnu/LGPL. ...
A prudent and convenient idea. Why haven't we done this before now?
- Brian
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