Re: [PROPOSAL] Full text of GPL must be included
>>"Raul" == Raul Miller <moth@debian.org> writes:
>> >>"Thomas" == Thomas Bushnell, BSG <tb@becket.net> writes:
Thomas> Debian advertises individual .debs for download in many contexts.
Raul> On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 12:13:10AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> I am not sure I agree with this statement.
Raul> Debian advertises a freely redistributable system, with no
Raul> special need to read copyrights before redistributing all or
Raul> part of it.
Doesn't the fact that we are totally geared towards a target
system that is Debian matter?
Raul> If we now claim that our .debs are not redistributable without
Raul> first reading the copyright file, we should post this new claim
Raul> prominently (for example, as part of our home page).
I think that is not a bad idea in general (you should know
about the copyright before you distribute software).
Raul> [Aside: it's also well documented, how to use our packages on
Raul> systems such as slackware -- using cpio and tar. Do we need to
Raul> file bugs against cpio and tar, so that they properly deal with
Raul> this GPL issue?]
No, we need to enhance the documentation to mention how you
need to pick up bits of another package whenever you move a .deb to a
slackware system. That .deb shall provide you with
/usr/share/doc/common-license.
Are you, perchance, advocating we keep several (potentially
several thousand) copies of the GPL on every Debian machine out there
on the off chance that the end user (despite pointers in the
copyright file) is unable to get a copy of the GPL? Would it really
matter, given this end users isolation from the network?
manoj
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