> On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 07:40:11PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > > A more authoritive source disagrees with you.. RMS wrote the GPL > > so I'll trust his opinion above yours. > > Ehm, Wichert, you wrote a [PROPOSAL] not a [DO IT NOW] message, so I > think we could discuss about it. > > I'm wondering about the meaning of "distribution". *Our* distribution is > the whole distro or a single package? What do we distribute? And if we > distribute a single package too, can we distribute GPL text in the same > place (more or less) and in the same way (mirror or cd for example)? Or > should GPL mean that GPL is *inside* the package? > > Am I clear? > > -- > Christian Surchi | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > FLUG: http://www.firenze.linux.it | Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org > -----------------> http://www.firenze.linux.it/~csurchi <------------------ > If you want to be ruined, marry a rich woman. -- Michelet > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
Why not simply include the GPL file in each package and replace it with an hard-link to the common copy in the package postinst? In this way we can make RMS happy and still have one real copy of the GPL. -- Massimo Dal Zotto +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Massimo Dal Zotto email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Via Marconi, 141 phone: ++39-0461534251 | | 38057 Pergine Valsugana (TN) www: http://www.cs.unitn.it/~dz/ | | Italy pgp: see my www home page | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
