On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 05:48:35PM -0500, Brian Mays wrote: > We distribute Debian in its entirety. We distribute a *complete* > system, which is why we work so hard to ensure that everything fits > together. Just as each package can assume that an essential component > is available for use (say, bash or perl) by its binaries, each package > should be able to assume that a copy of the GPL has been placed on the > system. It is the *same* assumption.
I was thinking about it, and personally I like it as description for the situation. > Our packages, however, are designed to be used on our distribution, and > are distributed as such. Therefore, one copy of the GPL per > distribution (i.e., as an essential part of the distribution) should be > sufficient. I don't consider that objective. We make a distro and we should not consider debs only for debian, but I think GPL text is available and I don't see that problems deeply. -- Christian Surchi | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] FLUG: http://www.firenze.linux.it | Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org -----------------> http://www.firenze.linux.it/~csurchi <------------------ <snip>
