John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When you download a .zip, it's not transferred unchanged. There are TCP/IP > headers added to each packet. The file transfer protocol (FTP, HTTP, etc) > adds stuff to it. .deb simply adds stuff as well. How's that different?
That's different because it's on a different layer. There is no file at that layer. More generally, I think this falls in the category of "if the author doesn't want us to distribute it, or if we don't feel it's right for us to distribute it, we don't". -- Raul
