On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 02:48:46PM -0500, Amy Fong wrote: > Perhaps there chould be a field within Debian packages which specifies what > license a package is under. Before unpacking a package, dpkg checks to > see if the relevant license has been read, if not, it presents it to the > user and the user reads it and either acknowledges/accepts or rejects > it. This could be done by keeping state info on which license/version > has been read or (I think this one's better) by having each license as a > package. Obviously, if the user rejects the license, measures could be > taken. I disagree. You can lead Corel developers to water, but you can't make them understand incompatibilities between licenses on Qt and the GPL. Seriously, all DFSG-free licenses are almost equivalent from the non-developer's perspective. And that is most of Debian's users. -- G. Branden Robinson | It was a typical net.exercise -- a Debian GNU/Linux | screaming mob pounding on a greasy spot branden@ecn.purdue.edu | on the pavement, where used to lie the cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | carcass of a dead horse.
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