On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 03:42:19PM +0100, Pixel wrote:
> David Odin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> [...]
>
> > > - move doc to -devel, removed doc COPYING
>
> it wins 150K which is in basesystem. For basesystem packages, documentation
> should be minimal, even worse for unneeded stuff.
>
> > >
> > Why ? According to the GPL/LGPL itself:
> >
>
> [...]
>
> > I know this is somewhat tedious to have many copy of this file (one for each
> > package), but isn't it the law?
>
> du -cs $(grep -l 'GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE' /usr/share/doc/*/COPYING)
> 4300
>
> I think these may be unnecessary. debian creates a COPYRIGHT file in doc that
> says to look at /usr/share/doc/licence/GPL (or something like this)
>
> if we really wanna be childish, we have to put the licence everywhere, even in
> -devel, so what?
>
I didn't want to be childish (at least, not this time ;-) ).
I just wanted to have your opinion about this. So I guess it is OK if I
remove the COPYING file from others packages.
Couldn't we have a package (say basesystem, or filesystem, or whatever
package which is _always_ installed) which contains the GPL for once, and
remove the 4299 others duplicate for this file?
WDYT?
DindinX
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