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Re: Manpages licensed under GFDL without the license text included



On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 03:14:47PM +1300, Nick Phillips wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 10:00:02PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> 
> > > Right. And when the .deb gets distributed on its own?
> > 
> > Then whoever does the distributing should ensure that they comply with the
> > terms of the licence of the software they're distributing, just as they need
> > to now (eg distributing source for GPL'd stuff).
> 
> Um, that's us. Or do you want to put a big banner up on all our archives
> telling people that no matter which package they want, they *must* also
> download whichever package it is that contains the "common licenses"?

The banner is provided in the copyright file of every package.  We
distribute the pre-built packages for use in a Debian system, which includes
base-files.

- Matt

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