Re: Why we must ship at least some licenses (was: Manoj, ...
On Mon, Aug 17, 1998 at 03:11:10AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> You have fulfilled your duty making it available in the same directory as
> the rest of the source. However, for Debian, being a huge distribution, with
Some shades of grey:
1) GPL is available on some ftp site or CD somewhere
2) GPL is on the same ftp site or CD set.
3) GPL is in the proposed verbatim/ directory
4) GPL is in the main/ directory
5) GPL is in the same directory
6) GPL is in the same tar archive
7) GPL is included in the same file
8) Through cryptographic magic the GPL is atomically attached to the
package, making the package useless if the GPL is not also present.
Current practice is 4. Manoj is suggesting moving up a directory level
to 3. Marcus is proposing we move to 6 when packaged, and 5 when unpacked.
I think anything above 1 will be defendable, and anything below 8 will be
attackable, and that everything between 2 and 6 will be viewed equivalently
if this ever ends up in a court. If 2-6 are equivalent legally, then it's
only a matter of convenience and politics where we draw the line: completely
up to us. I think it's convenient not to ship the GPL in every GPLed binary
package (2-5). It may be more politically correct to move the GPL out of
main/ (2 or 3). Being apathetic, I propose we just leave the GPL where it
is, in main/.
-Drake
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