Jonatan,
thanks for your reply -- I'll forward it to our mailing list
since development borrows quite a few ideas from Debian project.

On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 01:50:00PM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> > Contains the various common licenses uses by the ALT Linux.
> > Instead of including the COPYING file in every package,
> > just refer to this one.
> > 
> > Hint enough? :)
> 
> The Debian people went through this a while back.  Turns out that shipping
> a package without the COPYING file in it is a GPL violation.  As I recall,
> they ended up including the file in each package, but tweaking the
> installation routines to use the same copy on the target system.

Yours, Michael.

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