Re: Why licenses *are* free (was: Re: Why I don't share Manojs fears.
Hi,
>>"Marcus" == Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:
Marcus> Maybe it helps if I rephrase. I think that it does not make
Marcus> sense to talk about stand alone licenses (and you are talking
Marcus> about stand alone licenses), because we don't ship them. We
Marcus> ship software with a copyright attached to it. And we have to
Marcus> keep the copyright intact, or we are not able to distribute
Marcus> it at all.
On the contrrary. Look at what ships /usr/doc/copyright/GPL.
The package base files ships the licenses un attached to software. We
ship all the common licesnses stand alone in base-files : Artistic,
BSD, GPL, and LGPL. We can just as easily have a package called
copyrights, and put it in a verbatim section (not main, but
verbatim required/essential).
Please look at what we do before making statements ao
authoritatively.
Marcus> This is why I think this discussion is steering in the wrong
Marcus> dsirection, because it assumes that we ship licenses, but
Marcus> essentially we are shipping copyrights attached to other
Marcus> works.
/usr/doc/copyright/GPL is not shipped with other packages, so
this is incorrect. In fact, no package really ships with any of the
popular licenses, which are kept in /usr/doc/copyright. Debian ships
all popular licenses stand alone.
Marcus> I agree for stand alone licenses.
That means you concede the point for /usr/doc/copyright/GPL.
That is all I asked in the forst place.
manoj
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/var/lib/dpkg/info/base-files.list :
/.
/usr
/usr/doc
/usr/doc/base-files
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/usr/doc/base-files/README
/usr/doc/base-files/changelog.gz
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/usr/doc/copyright/Artistic
/usr/doc/copyright/BSD
/usr/doc/copyright/GPL
/usr/doc/copyright/LGPL
/usr/share
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/var/local
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