Evan Prodromou wrote (nice essay, by the way): >We haven't yet seen the package that was so absolutely indispensable >that we had to give up our principles to include it in Debian.
Well, to nitpick, the GPL license text might qualify as that absolutely indispensible case. License texts are a *very* special case, though, for many reasons which have been discussed before (license proliferation is actually bad; even if it's modifiable we have to ship it unmodified in order to ship the things licensed under it; if the law didn't make it necessary we wouldn't ship license texts at all; it's easy to tell a license text apart from the rest of Debian because it's always in /usr/share/doc/<package>/copyright; have I missed any?) Anyway, I'm pretty sure nobody is going to come up with anything other than another license text which is as essential as the text of the GPL (or which has as little negative impact if allowed in) so your points still stand. Oh. I contribute this message to the public domain, or if that is not legally possible, I grant everyone a perpetual irrevocable license to treat it as if it is in the public domain. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
