Re: [PROPOSAL] Full text of GPL must be included
>>"Brian" == Brian Frederick Kimball <bfk@footbag.org> writes:
Brian> At 04:17 pm -0500 on November 29, 2000, Brian Mays wrote:
>> The GPL says that we can distribute the binaries ...
>>
>> : ... provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each
>> : copy an appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep
>> : intact all the notices that refer to this License and to the absence
>> : of any warranty; and give any other recipients of the Program a copy
Brian> ^^^^
>> : of this License along with the Program.
Brian> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>
>> If here "you" refers to Debian, then we are not violating the GPL. We
>> distribute all of the packages, including "base", which contains the a
>> copy of the GPL. We distribute the program AND we give our recipients
>> a copy of the license.
Brian> Making the GPL available in a separate file that may or may not be
Brian> received by the recipient of the GPLed Program does not constitute
Brian> "giving" the GPL to the recipients of such a program "along with the
Brian> Program".
How can ypu possibly assure that without including the licence
as part of the binary?
Brian> Is Debian giving the License along with the Program to someone
Brian> who runs wget http://http.us.debian.org/path/to/GPLed/deb on a
Brian> RedHat system? I don't think so.
How can you say you are distributing the GPL is I do a whete
/bin/ls from a GNU system?
We distribute the GPL with the source. We distribute it with
the full Debian system. It is a required part of any Debina
install. It is part of the source package available from every debian
archive site.
No oe really covers partial downloads. I just downloaded an
xdelta of an emacs pretest. Horrors!! it does not contail the GPL. Is
the FSF in violation of its own policy?
manoj
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