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



On 1 Dec 2000, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Overdose of my name follows: ;)
> >>"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.

The problem with that is, an aliened .deb has been received from us, thus
counting as us distributing it. And the aliened .deb (and the
resulting .rpm/slack .tgz) would not contain the gpl in this circumstance,
which makes us be violating the gpl. apparently. =P

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