Re: [PROPOSAL] Full text of GPL must be included
On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> 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.
Where they are unambiguously required to be, and are but another text file
in an archive full of text files.
> > 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
That's 3 copies of libc6 or slightly less than 1000 copies of
base-passwd. Matter of fact, that 12 MB could be saved by removing the
GNU flagship, emacs.
> architecture, two thousand additional copies of the GPL assumed. What a deal.
> Or <nr of ports>/1000000 of the full archive. What a deal.
One byte for politics is too much.
> Marcus
>
>
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