Re: [PROPOSAL] Full text of GPL must be included
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- Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Full text of GPL must be included
- From: tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
- Date: 01 Dec 2000 12:08:35 -0800
- Message-id: <[🔎] 871yvrzyyk.fsf@becket.becket.net>
- In-reply-to: Manoj Srivastava's message of "01 Dec 2000 00:21:30 -0600"
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Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes:
> That is a) not supported, really
> b) not what we distribute.
> We distribute a system. Our policy governs our system (debian-policy
> is not relevant to a non debian system).
We can, and do, distribute individual .debs. We advertise in various
ways individual .debs. It is true that we only *support* their use on
Debian systems, which can be relied on to have GPL copies. But the
GPL doesn't say "you must give the recipient a copy of this License if
you are supporting their use of the software" It says "if you give
them the sw, you must give them the License".
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