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Re: FWD: dh_compress



On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 05:05:04PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> 
> How do you plan to read a compressed copyright file for gzip to determine if
> you agree with gzip's copyright and agree with it, to know if you can even
> use gzip?
> 

   How are you going to get the copyright out of a .deb or base.tar.gz in
the first place without using gzip?  For that matter uncompressed copyright
files are a lot easier to read using a GPL'd ext2 filesystem driver than
hunting for the right disk sectors on a raw partition.


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