Navindra Umanee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Btw, neither Caldera, RedHat, SuSE, Corel, Mandrake, Slackware,... > seem to think there's much of a problem. Any idea why that would be? > Are their lawyers any different from Debian lawyers?
None of these folks operate in the distributed fashion of debian. We need transitive permissions even in places where they don't. More generally, *we* can't get in trouble for any mistakes that *they* make. -- Raul