"Thomas Preud'homme" <robo...@celest.fr> writes: > Le mardi 8 mai 2012 07:56:35, Peter Miller a écrit :
>> I has always puzzled me that there are not license packages that one >> could Depends on, and get the appropriate license placed in the >> appropriate place. Apt-get is an excellent mechanism for that kind of >> thing, why not use it? > Because every package must have a license delivered with it. The case of > licenses in base-files is a compromise given that they are very popular > and that this package is normally installed on any Debian system. I think the core question is: why is base-files special? Yes, it's essential and all, but that doesn't address the case of packages being downloaded separate from Debian, or unpacked by hand, in which case we don't include a license. If we're legally fine with that, I'm having a hard time seeing the clear distinction between that and a dependency on another package including the license. Surely this has been discussed before? I don't remember seeing it on the debian-policy list since I started working on Policy. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87ehquy9va....@windlord.stanford.edu
