[Pkg-db-devel] DFSG issue w/ doc package

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 11:57:23AM -0600, dann frazier wrote:
> For my employer, we're preparing a fixed db3 package for
> #357526.  I can see three ways of going about this:
> 
>  * Ask upstream to license these files under a DFSG-license
>  * move db3-doc to non-free
>  * make db3-doc an empty package
>  * remove db3-doc binary package
> 
> I'm looking to work with this team to decide on a path so that I can
> use the same method for our build.  Ideally I'd like to prepare one
> set of packages that can be used by both my work project and upload to
> Debian so that we don't have to fork.
> 
> Should I take the lead & start a discussion with upstream?

Dann, I managed to find the original bug about this now.  Sorry I wasn't
able to find it earlier.  See

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=256332