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



On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Brian Mays wrote:

> > 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
> 
> We are distributing aliened debs?  When did we start doing this?

sorry, misphrased that: the .deb that got aliened originally was from us,
and did not CONTAIN a copy of the GPL. 

All in all it's a bunch of bunk, really. Just RMS beinr religiously anal
ABOUT being anal, like always. And he's trying to use Debian as his
poster-child example so that he can go after other distributions.


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