Re: REVISED PROPOSAL regarding DFSG 3 and 4, licenses, and modifiable text

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Subject: Re: REVISED PROPOSAL regarding DFSG 3 and 4, licenses, and modifiable text
From: "Scott M. Dier" <dieman@ringworld.org>
Date: 04 Dec 2001 01:25:47 -0600
Message-id: <[🔎] 1007450747.10345.4.camel@teela>
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On Tue, 2001-12-04 at 00:13, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> As yet, you haven't really said why you oppose a proportional system,
> especially since it's easier to deliberately evade a fixed limit
> system.

Include a 8mb /dev/null file as one of your datafiles.  It compresses
well, and it helps your proportion.  The fixed limit gives enough leeway
to deal with most licenses and rant-text.  If someone becomes stupid
with splitting up packages, I think the ftpmasters will give them a nice
kick in the ass.  Otherwise, how can you 'evade' this 2**15bytes mark?

-- 
Scott Dier <dieman@ringworld.org> <sdier@debian.org>
http://www.ringworld.org/  irc://irc.openprojects.net/linuxos

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