On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 10:57:56PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: > On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 14:25:37 +1300 Nick Phillips wrote: > > > The fact that we have conveniently > > ignored this problem when dealing with the GPL and BSD licenses so far > > does not make it go away. > > It is my understanding that Debian packages refer to the GPL text in > /usr/share/common-licenses/ because the GPL license requires us to > *accompany* the compiled form with the license text, rather than going > beyond and requiring that the license text be *included* in the compiled > form (that is fairly more demanding).
Right. And when the .deb gets distributed on its own? Cheers, Nick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
