On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 02:41:02PM -0500, neroden@fastmail.fm wrote: > > d) They may require that the work contain functioning facilities that > > allow users to immediately obtain copies of its Complete Corresponding > > Source Code. > *** > Although this may be a Free requirement -- and I believe it should be > considered Free -- it poses *major* practical problems for Debian. For > Debian, I see only one real way of satisfying this: packaging a copy of the > entire source package into the .deb. Yuck. Anything else requires the user > to have Internet access or a local archive copy, which we can't guarantee. I don't think that's the case -- scripts like debootstrap could include such functionality merely by cat'ing themselves to stdout, eg. Cheers, aj
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