[Pkg-doc-linux-devel] Should Consultants-HOWTO be non-free

[Frank Lichtenheld]

On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 01:17:52AM -0600, doug jensen wrote:
> Consultants-HOWTO, authored by Joshua Drake, is in the doc-linux-html
> (free) copyright file, under the default LINUX DOCUMENTATION PROJECT
> LICENSE (i.e. LDPL-2.0).  However, the "License and Copyright"shows
> Open Publication License.
> 
> This is from the Consultants-HOWTO:
> Chapter 1. License and Copyright
> Copyright (c) 2002 by Command Prompt, Inc.. This material may be
> distributed only subject to the terms and conditions set forth in
> the Open Publication License, v1.0 or later (the latest version is
> presently available at http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/).
> 
> Distribution of substantively modified versions of this document is
> prohibited without the explicit permission of the copyright holder.'
> 
> Distribution of the work or derivative of the work in any standard
> (paper) book form is prohibited unless prior permission is obtained
> from the copyright holder.
> </Chapter 1. License and Copyright>
> 
> The Consultants-HOWTO isn't distributed as a document, just a link to:
> REFRESH(0 sec): http://www.tldp.org/LDP/lcg/html/

As it is only a link page I see no problem in keeping it in the package,
I will however see that I reflect this fact in our copyrights/ files.
As the page is probably kept only to not break links after the document
moved from HOWTO to Guide we can safely remove it if we want, though.

> Additionally, it is a large list of Names and addresses that hasn't been
> updated since (v8,0) November 2002.  I wonder how useful it is?
>
> I guess the document should be moved to non-free, but what will we do as
> some of these documents get older and older?  Don't they have a potential
> of reflecting badly on the Debian project?  After sarge, maybe we should
> discuss removing some of them.

Hmm, at most they reflect badly at the LDP, no?
Before removing a document from the package because we think that it
is too outdated we certainly should ask at the LDP list if they want
to remove it, too.

Gruesse,
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Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
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