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

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Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Full text of GPL must be included
From: Brian Mays <brian@debian.org>
Date: 29 Nov 2000 23:56:48 -0500
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In-reply-to: tb@becket.net's message of "29 Nov 2000 19:42:53 -0500"
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tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes:

> I think it would be clearer, and not *that* much of a problem, if we
> added a dependency on base-files.

Note that "base-files" is an essential package, which means that either:

(1) the user is running Debian, which means that this package is already
    installed, or

(2) the user is not running Debian, which means that dependencies are
    useless and likely to be ignored.

Therefore, having every GPLed package depend on "base-files" is
pointless.

- Brian

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