Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As we do. We distribute the Debian systems, and with every > copy of a Debian system, there si the GPL as an essential > component. It is on the Official CD images. It is on every archive > site. It is on every machine that has a copy of dpkg. It is certainly > on every debian system.
The dpkg binary package doesn't come with the GPL; there are many machines that have copies of dpkg that do not have the GPL, because there are many non-Debian machines that have dpkg on them. And in fact, we distribute Debian systems, and we also distribute individual packages. It is the latter that is the issue. The thing to keep in mind here, again, is the user who fetches Debian packages of GPL'd software, and installs them with something like alien on a non-Debian system. Thomas
