Re: What RMS says about standards (was: [rms@gnu.org: Re: Questions regarding free documentation.]
Hi,
[I do not think we are i dispute, but I have a reputation to
maintain ;-)]
>>"Raul" == Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com> writes:
Raul> Eh? I'm having trouble understanding "how we do things now, if the
Raul> binary distribution becomes multiCD".
I parsed your objection to having the copyrights on a certain
cd thus: Suppose the binary distribution no longer fots on one CD (I
think Slink would fit qualify). Now, base-files can be on one CD or
the other, depending on how things fit; and my understanding was that
this would violate your requirement that the copyright files be on
every CD.
Yes?
Raul> I don't think that I'm expressing a new requirement.
Well, at the moment, we do not require base-files on every CD
we produce.
Raul> Right now, /usr/doc/copyright/{GPL,LGPL,..} is a part of base-files,
Raul> which is an essential package, and it's on the base disks (at least
Raul> that's the way it is in the "current" disks-i386 in hamm).
I do not propose changing that.
I, in fact, even proposed that *all* cd images may have a
verbatim/main/copyrights.deb file so that we can say
a) Every Debian machine has the copyrights
b) every Debian CD has the copyrights
c) Every debian ftp Archive contains the copyrights as well.
This really should satisfy Marcus.
manoj
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