[Pkg-doc-linux-devel] Bug#439403: doc-linux: Consider removing debian/copyrights/non-free/OSL-1.1 file

[dann frazier]

Package: doc-linux
Version: 2007.08-2
Severity: wishlist

The company I work for ships a subset of the Debian distribution.
We have an internal tool that does some automated license footprinting
and raises a flag whenever it finds evidence of a license that our legal
guys find problematic.

One of these licenses is OSL-1.1

Everytime they examine our Debian subset, they raise the same flag about
doc-linux, because it finds debian/copyrights/non-free/OSL-1.1. Of course
its obvious based on the hierarchy that this is a known non-free license,
and obvious from poking around the package that the files under this license
have been removed.

But, everytime they see it they raise a flag and I get to explain it all
over again (they review a lot of stuff in-between that flushes their mental
cache).

So, this is a selfish request to make my life easier by removing the file.

Of course, I know this requires a new orig.tar.gz, etc, and you probably
have reasons for wanting to keep it around anyway, so feel free to just
close this bug. But I figure there's no harm in asking :)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: ia64

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-1-mckinley (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash