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Re: QPL in /usr/share/comon-licences (was: Re: wnpp: ITP: apc --



On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 10:52:53AM +0200, Luca De_Vitis wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 09:35:31AM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > Previously John Galt wrote:
> > > Wasn't that the bone of contention?  Whether or not the present tack of
> > > symlinking /usr/share/doc/common-license was allowable?  I was
> > > hypothesizing that this was not the case.
> >
> > Yes, but Ben came up with the trick if putting the full GPL in the
> > package, and replacing that file with a symlink in the postinst.
> 
> I agree (i was thinking the same thing while reading the thread).
> And what about changing /usr/share/doc/common-license in
> /usr/share/doc/supported-license?

BTW, note that it's /usr/share/common-licenses, not
/usr/share/doc/common-licenses. Why is this so? It's a mistake, IMHO.


Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>



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