On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 18:21:40 +0200 Norbert Preining wrote: > On Sa, 19 Apr 2008, Francesco Poli wrote: > > While you are at changing the place where LPPL text lives, I think that > > you could just paste it *inside* the debian/copyright file, as mandated > > by Debian Policy [1]. > > Yup, 97 * LPPL.txt, great idea ... > 97 * 19110 = 1.8Mb more space > Ok ... if you think that is a good idea.
If there's a significant waste of space, you should advocate for a /usr/share/common-licenses/LPPL-1.3 , rather than deliberately violating Debian Policy. Policy mandates that license texts are included in debian/copyright (when not present in /usr/share/common-licenses/) for a number of good reasons, IMHO, among which: * users should be able to read license terms in a standardized place * licensing info should be automatically retrievable, even before installing the package (think about the "copyright" links in packages.debian.org and packages.qa.debian.org pages) At least, this is my opinion, but it seems to be shared by other people. Cheers, -- http://frx.netsons.org/doc/index.html#nanodocs The nano-document series is here! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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