Re: [PROPOSAL] Full text of GPL must be included
On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 12:55:39PM -0700, Rando Christensen wrote:
> > That way, even dpkg would warn on a --install that license-gpl was
> > suppossed to be installed as well, which counts, IMO, as accompanying all
> > gpl'd programs with the GPL itself.
>
> Note that dpkg itself is GPLed, so if you have a working version of dpkg,
> you almost certainly already have a copy of the GPL. (On a Debian system,
> the GPL's in base-files, which is essential). Note that if you want to
> get any use out of a deb (other than just look at how it's laid out,
> maybe), you almost certainly need to run it on a Linux system, and Linux
> is also GPLed (ditto Hurd).
Unfortunately, the Argument posed by RMS, apparently, is that it needs to
be INCLUDED with all packages, no matter what system it's on.
>
> Cheers,
> aj
>
> --
> Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/>
> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred.
>
> ``Thanks to all avid pokers out there''
> -- linux.conf.au, 17-20 January 2001
>
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