compressing copyright
On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 11:14:35AM +0100, Massimo Dal Zotto wrote:
> I would personally like that also the copyright files would be compressed.
> I don't think that the compression changes the copyright itself or the
> licencing policy of the package, or the ability of the user to read this
> information. We must install anyway the package in a debian system to be
> able to read the docs and zless is already installed in every base system.
This is where I disagree. I have been wondering myself over the last few
days, how many of the non-free and contrib and so forth have I installed on
my system? How many packages are *not* free? I think if I were to take the
time, I could write a quick little script to grep through all
/usr/share/doc/package/copyright.txt to find out which ones are free and
which ones aren't.
But, having yet to do this, maybe it isn't such a bad idea...
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