On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 05:05:04PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > > How do you plan to read a compressed copyright file for gzip to determine if > you agree with gzip's copyright and agree with it, to know if you can even > use gzip? >
How are you going to get the copyright out of a .deb or base.tar.gz in the first place without using gzip? For that matter uncompressed copyright files are a lot easier to read using a GPL'd ext2 filesystem driver than hunting for the right disk sectors on a raw partition.
