Bug#883950: Next steps on "[GPL-3+]" proposal
Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net> writes:
> Just a straw poll: who sees /etc/motd these days? My system (probably
> in common with many many users) boots into a graphical environment; I
> only see the motd in the case that I ssh into my machine. So I'm
> against removing the 'see /u/s/common-licenses' type wording in the
> copyright file, unless the copyright file is no longer intended for
> humans to be able to read and understand.
Well, how many people ever look at /usr/share/doc/<package>/copyright,
though? I think it's reasonable to believe that if someone gets that far,
they've either seen /etc/motd or know enough about Debian to know where to
look for things.
(I see it all the time, but I run Debian on servers.)
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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