Re: [PROPOSAL] Full text of GPL must be included
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Seth Arnold wrote:
> * Rando Christensen <illuzion@xanthor.net> [001129 21:27]:
> > What I would most like to see myself is adding a /etc/licensing/
> > directory in which every license used on the system can esist, for
> > example:
> >
> > /etc/licensing/
> > \-- GPL
> > \-- BSD
> > \-- Other
>
> $ cd /usr/share/common-licenses
> $ ls -l
> total 88
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6111 Dec 15 1996 Artistic
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1499 Aug 26 1999 BSD
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17992 Sep 16 1999 GPL
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Nov 12 19:12 LGPL -> LGPL-2.1
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25284 Feb 2 2000 LGPL-2
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26532 Jul 7 1999 LGPL-2.1
>
> Perhaps you could file wishlist bugreports against base-files if you
> wish this directory moved, or new licenses added to it (such as the X
> license, mpl, scsl(sp?), qt, etc..).
Well, I don't care where they throw them. I think that ALL licenses should
have a copy there, not just 'common' ones. I just don't think that we
should have to have An entire copy of the GPL for each installed package
that is Under the GPL. That seems WAY wasteful to me. Perhaps, making dpkg
not INSTALL the license umless it doesn't exist in whatever directory it's
in.
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