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Re: Licenses not in /usr/share/common-licenses



Le mardi 8 mai 2012 07:56:35, Peter Miller a écrit :

> On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 20:23 -0400, Joey Hess wrote:

> > Conversely, debhelper contains actual,

> > documented, and non-insane interfaces that could be used to do

> > this properly. For some value of "properly" that the ftpmasters

> > would probably still insta-REJECT.

>

> I has always puzzled me that there are not license packages that one

> could Depends on, and get the appropriate license placed in the

> appropriate place. Apt-get is an excellent mechanism for that kind of

> thing, why not use it?

 

Because every package must have a license delivered with it. The case of licenses in base-files is a compromise given that they are very popular and that this package is normally installed on any Debian system.

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