Re: Must the entire GPL be included?
*-Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>
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| On 25 Nov 1998, Ole J. Tetlie wrote:
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| > I've bee in contact with the author of lwm (possibly the smallest
| > window manager on earth - beats wm2 and 9wm) about using the GPL.
| > He wants to do so, but the text of the GPL is almost as big as
| > the source, so he wants to put it under the GPL with only a short
| > notice about where the entire license can be found.
| >
| > Is this possible?
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| Maybe (I don't know), but what is the real gain, anyway?
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| We already do not include the entire GPL in the binary .deb package, but
| a reference to it instead, so the binary package would continue to be
| really small, as intended.
Oh, the .deb isn't a problem. I'm asking on behalf of the upstream
maintainer who doesn't want to increase the size of the source dist.
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(Brian White)
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