Re: [PROPOSAL] Full text of GPL must be included
>>"Rando" == Rando Christensen <illuzion@xanthor.net> writes:
Rando> 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?
Rando> If alien makes an rpm out of a .deb, then in this proposed system, that
Rando> .deb no longer contains a copy of thee gpl -- that being our problem...
Why the heck is that our problem? That is the problem of the
person who usees alien and proceds todistribute the rp without the
GPL. Fo find those people and yell at 'em until they see the error of
their ways.
But please, do not do so on debian-policy.
manoj
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