On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 10:26:22PM -0700, John Galt wrote: > > > > > In the Real-World application, though, installing 300+ copies of the GPL > > > is absurd, and, quite frankly, a waste of space. Which seems the only way > > > to satisfy him. > > > > Certainly it's not necessary, as has been pointed out a jillion times > > already in this thread. We could very easily make sure the GPL is in > > all the relevant .debs and yet not need to install a jillion copies on > > the user's disk...(elllipsis added) > > ...just have a jillion copies in the archives.
As there already are in the source archive. > Now multiply that by the ~18K that > /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL takes. Compressed it is a third of this. All in all it would make about 12 MB per architecture, two thousand additional copies of the GPL assumed. What a deal. Or <nr of ports>/1000000 of the full archive. What a deal. Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de
