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

[tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)]

Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> writes:

> Message-ID: <[🔎] 20011202051311.GC25368@deadbeast.net>
>   > A proportional limit seems more sensible to me.
> 
>   It doesn't to me.  I don't find a megabyte of invariant text acceptable,
>   whether the total work is 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, or even 20 megabytes.  Beyond
>   that we're getting into highly unusual territory for Debian packages in
>   general.

But you do find a megabyte acceptable, as long as it's split up among
many different packages?

> > especially since it's easier to deliberately evade a fixed limit
> > system.
> 
> How so?  Can you provide some examples?

Yes.  I want my novella published, so I break it up into pieces, and
attach each piece to a different package; done.

In the case of a proportional test, I must provide that much actual
work too (and benefit for the project), at the same time, for it to be
possible--that's a big hassle.