Re: [PROPOSAL] Full text of GPL must be included
On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Brian Mays wrote:
> <sarcasm>
> But what if someone (named Fred) downloads our package and makes an RPM
> out of it (using alien) and gives it to his friend (named Bob, who knows
> nothing about Debian) and is hit by a car and dies. Oh my god! Bob would
> then be left without knowledge or access to the source of the binaries,
> and therefore a grievous violation of the GPL would have occurred! We
> MUST include the source too in our packages, to prevent tragic situations
> such as this.
> </sarcasm>
>
> See how ridiculous these arguments are beginning to sound?
It was almost this ridiculous to begin with.
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