Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>
>>Oh, and if we do not specify what the nature of what we package, would it be
>>easier to prove we merely carry packages? That would really be nice.
>>
>
> A common carrier carries content from one external point to another as
> directed by the parties exchanging the content without any
> modification of that content. The fact that we assemble the content
> into an aggregate work is sufficient to say we are not a common
> carrier. That aggregate work is functional in a way that no individual
> package is, and putting it together constitutes an independent work of
> creation, carried out by the organization. The vast body of Debian
> policy is concerned with assembling that content into the aggregate
> work, it specifies many details about the content meant to make it
> operate when assembled together.
But that would not include any debian mirror, they would be common
carrier?
MfG
Goswin
