Re: Amendment: invariant-less in main (Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement)
Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
> Merle Ray <mjr@phonecoop.coop> wrote:
>> Would ftpmasters and mirror operators be able to "either include a
>> machine-readable Transparent copy along with each Opaque copy, or [...]
>> ensure that this Transparent copy will remain thus accessible at the
>> stated location until at least one year after the last time you
>> distribute an Opaque copy (directly or through your agents or
>> retailers) of that edition to the public" anyway? I thought similar
>> source distribution requirements were a practical problem just now?
> Yes. It just requires a policy stating that each binary package must
> include a transparent copy. This isn't terribly difficult, it's just
> irritating.
Given that I expect many people are about to upload non-free packages with
GFDL documentation, it would probably be worthwhile to publicize this
requirement more widely.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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