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Re: non-free/contrib package maintainers

On 24 Jul 1997, Guy Maor wrote:

> Christian Schwarz <schwarz@monet.m.isar.de> writes:
> 
> > The files BSD, GPL.gz, LGPL.gz and Artistic.gz are be available
> > in /usr/doc/copyright for you to refer to. 
> 
> Why is everything gzipped except BSD?

$ cd /usr/doc/copyright  
$ ls -l BSD GPL.gz LGPL.gz Artistic.gz 
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root         2417 Apr 17  1996 Artistic.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root         1726 Aug 25  1995 BSD
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root         6832 Aug 25  1995 GPL.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root         9041 Aug 25  1995 LGPL.gz

I think it's because BSD-license is smaller than the others.

> I think none of these should be gzipped because other package's
> copyrights can't be gzipped. 

Huh? Policy sais in section `5.6 Copyright information':

	The copyright file should not be compressed unless it is very
        large.

Since people should definitely _not_ make /usr/doc/package/copyright a
symlink to the provided licenses, I don't it doesn't matter if the
licenses are compressed or not.

> Should I file a bug against base-files? 

It's not a bug IMHO. But it doesn't look very nice. Perhaps we should
uncompress the four files?


Thanks,

Chris

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