manoj writes: > I see no reason to bloat every package like that. We are not required to > (point 2 in the list above satisfies all legal requirements). I think > that we should actually move the copyrights to the verbatim section, and > move to point 2 above. As long as they are on every debian system, and on > every cd and archive, we have done.
I don't think you can say this of every license. Some licenses say things like "You must include this license in every distribution of the program". I think that by 'distribution' the authors of these licenses mean a .deb or a .rpm or a .tgz, not Debian or Red Hat or Slackware. It should not be possible to get a .deb of a program published under such a license without also getting the license. > I definitely do not have thqat much space to waste. Neither do I. > One copy on every machine, cd, and ftp archive should be enough. And on > the CD and ftp archive, they should sit in the verbatim section where > they belong. Yes, but in the case of software published under licenses of the above mentioned type, I think we must see to it that that copy is there, even if the machine is not running Debian. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI
