Bug#335220: [Pkg-doc-linux-devel] Bug#335220: doc-linux-text: [NONFREE-DOC] includes non-free documentation

[Francesco Poli]

On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 19:23:40 +0200 Frank Lichtenheld wrote:

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> Thanks for this analysis. I will go through it before preparing the
> next upload.

You're welcome.

> 
> Some small comments:
> 
> I don't yet plan to remove the GFDL stuff, will do
> that later in the release cycle... It's just too much documents and
> so I will only remove them when I feel it is really necessary.

IMHO, you should begin contacting upstream authors ASAP, so that you
have enough time to persuade them to relicense before we are close to
etch release...
Perhaps you could move non-free documents to a separate
doc-linux-text-nonfree package, while you wait for the relicensing
effort to be completed. Then each document would be able to be moved
back to doc-linux-text, as soon as it's relicensed in a DFSG-free
manner...

> 
> I see the LDPL license as free unless there will emerge a real
> consensus in the project regarding the "identify contributors" clauses
> in various licenses.

I understand your point of view.
I personally believe that the right to distribute anonymous
modifications should be granted by a DFSG-free work, but I admit there's
not (yet) a strong consensus on this...

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