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Re: [PROPOSAL] Full text of GPL must be included



On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Brian Mays wrote:

> Rando Christensen <illuzion@xanthor.net> writes:
> > > Okay, so what's the problem with all gpl'd packages Depending on a
> > > package called 'license-gpl' ?
> 
> tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) wrote:
> 
> > I suggested that, and it might be sufficient, but only if the tools
> > like alien actually do enforce the dependency.
> 
> Huh?  Perhaps I'm missing something, but what does "alien" have to do
> with anything?

If alien makes an rpm out of a .deb, then in this proposed system, that
.deb no longer contains a copy of thee gpl -- that being our problem...

> 
> Either one is converting a package from another format for use on
> Debian, or one is making a package for another packaging system.  AFAIK,
> alien does not, and cannot properly do dependencies.  (How does one
> set up dependencies for a Slackware package?)  So what is your point?
> Correct me if I'm wrong.
> 
> - Brian
> 
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