Bug#189422: reassigning to policy
On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 01:18:20AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > I see no point in including N bloody kilobytes of GFDL in the texinfo and
> > info packages' copyright files when the copyright is very much accessible
> > within the packages' info documentation, to which it only applies after all.
>
> You mean, in the info documentation which is built with texinfo.tex that state:
>
> % This texinfo.tex file is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
> % modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
> % published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at
> % your option) any later version.
>
> LOL!
Er, no, it's built from e.g. doc/texinfo.txi that says
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or
any later version published by the Free Software Foundation [...]
> > Nobody really gives a rat's ass if the extraction routine has to zcat or
> > whatever, since the copyright file format is undefined anyhow, it requires
> > eyeballing regardless.
>
> My oculist forbid me to eyeball gzip'ed file 8(.
Semi-random sequences of bytes hurt your eyes? :)
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