On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 03:42:19PM +0100, Pixel wrote:
> 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?
It's not childish IMHO. You don't know where those rpms will go. It's
possible that someone might take one of these packages and install it on say a
RedHat machine. If they do and we get rid of the COPYING file then you don't
have the license along with it at all.
Or for that matter a newer RPM on an older version of Mandrake. Finally the
other issue is that some packages would come with differing versions of the
GPL. How would you handle that?
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Maslow's Maxim: If the only tool you have is a hammer,
you treat everything like a nail.
