Re: [PROPOSAL] Full text of GPL must be included
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 10:26:22PM -0700, John Galt wrote:
> >
> > > In the Real-World application, though, installing 300+ copies of the GPL
> > > is absurd, and, quite frankly, a waste of space. Which seems the only way
> > > to satisfy him.
> >
> > Certainly it's not necessary, as has been pointed out a jillion times
> > already in this thread. We could very easily make sure the GPL is in
> > all the relevant .debs and yet not need to install a jillion copies on
> > the user's disk...(elllipsis added)
>
> ...just have a jillion copies in the archives.
As there already are in the source archive.
> Now multiply that by the ~18K that
> /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL takes.
Compressed it is a third of this. All in all it would make about 12 MB per
architecture, two thousand additional copies of the GPL assumed. What a deal.
Or <nr of ports>/1000000 of the full archive. What a deal.
Marcus
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