On Sep 03, 07 13:39:30 +0200, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> On Monday, 3. September 2007, Lukas Ocilka wrote:
>
> > Libzypp supports --nodeps as a fallback solution for installing RPMs.
> > First, it, of course, tries to install an RPM in a normal way, then
> > libzypp tries that with --nodeps automatically.
>
> Thats not a reason. we rely on package dependencies already for other
> licensing issues, and this would be no different.
Which other issues would that be?
> otherwise you could also say that if a user installs all his pacakges with
> all
> files but the COPYING file would also be a licensing violation.
A distributor must ship the COPYING file, a user may ignore it.
If our default installers fail to install it, then we may have a GPL violation.
If a user explicitly disables its installation, he is fine.
cheers,
JW.
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