Re: [PROPOSAL] Full text of GPL must be included
>>"Thomas" == Thomas Bushnell, BSG <tb@becket.net> writes:
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Thomas> The GPL speaks of what you distribute. When you put a bunch
Thomas> of pieces up on a web site, the question of whether you
Thomas> intend to distribute the pieces or only the combined whole is
Thomas> a question of what your intention is. One indication of
Thomas> Debian's intention is that it advertises individual .debs for
Thomas> download.
Please show me one place where we advertize individual debs
which are not meant to be upgrades of an existing Debian system,
which already has to contain the GPL.
Indeed, we say (release notes of the releases, etc) that by
definition Essential packages are those without which you shall not
have a working system, we reiterate that removing the essential
packages break your system. It has always been our intent to provide
software for Debian systems; and to imply otherwise seems
disturbingly like going out of ones way to assume the worst.
manoj
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