Structure of package /man

Olivier Galibert galibert at pobox.com
Wed Jun 8 14:53:55 EDT 2005


On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 07:29:24PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
> Look, why do you think that all RPM and deb and similar stuff get
> distributed both as binary and source package, where every purchaser
> of the binary has the right to get the source for not more than
> copying fees?

Binary rpms and debs do not include the source files.  So "accompany"
meaning "in the same package" is out.  At that point, everything's
possible.

In particular, I fail to see any legally significant difference
between saying that the source for
  ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xemacs21/xemacs21-mule_21.4.17-1_i386.deb
is at
  ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xemacs21/xemacs21_21.4.17.orig.tar.gz

and that the source for
  http://ftp.xemacs.org/packages/auctex-1.46-pkg.tar.gz
is at
  http://cvs.xemacs.org/viewcvs.cgi/XEmacs/packages/xemacs-packages/auctex/

  OG.




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