Re: Mass bug filing: Cryptographic protection against modification

[Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com>]

Goswin von Brederlow wrote:

> base-files:
> 
> E.g. /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2:
>  Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
>  of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
> 
> Thats clearly not DFSG free.
> 
> And no, those files are not the license of the source they acomplish
> but stand on their own.

Nothing in base-files is GPL-licensed?  Interesting.  I'm sure some
Essential: yes package is, however, and those could be considered a minimum
lump, since they're not really separable in an installation.

I don't like it, of course.

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