On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Brian Mays wrote:
> <sarcasm>
> But what if someone (named Fred) downloads our package and makes an RPM 
> out of it (using alien) and gives it to his friend (named Bob, who knows 
> nothing about Debian) and is hit by a car and dies.  Oh my god!  Bob would 
> then be left without knowledge or access to the source of the binaries, 
> and therefore a grievous violation of the GPL would have occurred!  We 
> MUST include the source too in our packages, to prevent tragic situations 
> such as this.
> </sarcasm>
> 
> See how ridiculous these arguments are beginning to sound?

It was almost this ridiculous to begin with.


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