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



All debian users already have a copy of the GPL.  It is included with
the base systems.  Therefore if you're using dpkg, you have the GPL
already.  This is not the issue here.  The issue is that people using
other distributions can download .debs and use a program such as alien
to convert a .deb to a .rpm, thus they might not have the GPL on their
system.

serge

Onno wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I haven't read the whole thread(!) but I have two simple solutions(?):
> 
> 1) Make a GPL package, all other packages depend on it.
> 
> or
> 
> 2) Include the GPL in dpkg (other .dep tools must incorperate it too!)
>    and let it check with every package if there is a GPL installed or
> not.
> 
> Too simplistic?
> 
> Anyway, here are my 2c worth,
> 
> Onno
> 
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