Re: What RMS says about standards (was: [rms@gnu.org: Re: Questions regarding free documentation.]
On 16 Aug 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Shipping the GPL as part of the package is the exception
> rather than the rule. and /usr/doc/copyright/GPL is a shipped
> standalone.
Shipping the GPL as part of the *source* package is the rule.
Since we have lots of GPLed packages it would be silly to have 1500 copies
of "COPYING" in the *binary* packages.
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