Re: (DRAFT) FAQ on documentation licensing
Evan Prodromou wrote (nice essay, by the way):
>We haven't yet seen the package that was so absolutely indispensable
>that we had to give up our principles to include it in Debian.
Well, to nitpick, the GPL license text might qualify as that absolutely
indispensible case. License texts are a *very* special case, though, for
many reasons which have been discussed before (license proliferation is
actually bad; even if it's modifiable we have to ship it unmodified in order
to ship the things licensed under it; if the law didn't make it necessary we
wouldn't ship license texts at all; it's easy to tell a license text apart
from the rest of Debian because it's always
in /usr/share/doc/<package>/copyright; have I missed any?)
Anyway, I'm pretty sure nobody is going to come up with anything other than
another license text which is as essential as the text of the GPL (or which
has as little negative impact if allowed in) so your points still stand.
Oh. I contribute this message to the public domain, or if that is not legally
possible, I grant everyone a perpetual irrevocable license to treat it as if
it is in the public domain.
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