Re: What RMS says about standards (was: [rms@gnu.org: Re: Questions regarding free documentation.]
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@datasync.com> wrote:
> [I do not think we are i dispute, but I have a reputation to
> maintain ;-)]
Oh, ok.
> 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?
No.
I didn't have a requirement that the copyright files be on every CD,
I had a requirement that, for the case where they're not on the CD,
they be on every system for which the CD be intended.
Which isn't to say that's not a good idea.
> 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.
I certainly have no objection to this.
--
Raul
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