On 16 Aug 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Shipping the GPL as part of the package is the exception > rather than the rule. and /usr/doc/copyright/GPL is a shipped > standalone.
Shipping the GPL as part of the *source* package is the rule. Since we have lots of GPLed packages it would be silly to have 1500 copies of "COPYING" in the *binary* packages. -- "242a709ab2c81eaf62a12258fbf25f65" (a truly random sig)
