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Re: Draft GR: Simplification of license and copyright requirements for the Debian packages.



On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 00:35 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> 3) Is there a benefit of allowing non-free files to be distributed together
> with the source of the Debian system ?

Have you considered the harm?  It means that users can no longer assume
that whatever is in the source packages can be distributed by them under
the DFSG.  Especially since your proposal is all about making copyright
information harder to locate, you are making things far harder.

Thomas



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