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Correction about origin (was: Re: Shipping the copyright in binary packages



On Sun, Aug 16, 1998 at 07:49:59PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> 
> The proposal goes back to an idea by Raul Miller, I've seen it on some list,
> don't remember where.

Richard pointed out that it was him, so here is the mail I meant:

Richard Braakman:
> I don't think we can do that.  Already the practice of shipping debs
> without a copy of the GPL is legally dubious; fortunately we can point
> at the copy in base-files, which is in the same archive and is
> guaranteed to be installed on all systems.
>
> We can still adopt this rule, if we change policy so that GPL'd packages
> must include a copy of the GPL, rather than referring to it.
>
> An alternative might be a technical change to dpkg: "shared" files,
> which can be installed by any number of packages, as long as their
> contents (md5sum) are identical.  That would allow us to ship the
> GPL with every package, while still having only one copy on the system.
> (Still in /usr/doc/copyright/GPL, presumably)
>
> I think this feature would have value in other contexts too; it might
> eliminate the smaller "-common" packages.
> 
> Richard Braakman

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