Re: REVISED PROPOSAL regarding DFSG 3 and 4, licenses, and modifiable text

[tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)]

"Scott M. Dier" <dieman@ringworld.org> writes:

> On Tue, 2001-12-04 at 00:13, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> > As yet, you haven't really said why you oppose a proportional system,
> > especially since it's easier to deliberately evade a fixed limit
> > system.
> 
> Include a 8mb /dev/null file as one of your datafiles.  It compresses
> well, and it helps your proportion.  The fixed limit gives enough leeway
> to deal with most licenses and rant-text.  If someone becomes stupid
> with splitting up packages, I think the ftpmasters will give them a nice
> kick in the ass.  Otherwise, how can you 'evade' this 2**15bytes mark?

It seems to me that an 8MB empty file is rather obviously not real
content; I'm assuming that people are aware of what actual content
does look like.

But regardless--what exactly is the reason against proportionality?