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Help for convincing authors of non-DFSG free documentation
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| Andreas Tille 2004-08-22, 6:11 pm |
| Hello,
a lot of documentation packages got serious bugs filed because of using non-DFSG
free licenses. I tagged one of my packages (zope-book) "help" at
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugr...ug=266417&msg=6
and I think I should raise this issue here because it might concern others
as well. The main idea of this request for help is that maintainers of
all these packages which are concerned try all on their own to convince
authors to change their license. But many of these authors do not really
understand all these DFSG - GFDL issues. SO why not setting up a web site
which explains the problem clearly for the target audience?
To quote my "call for help":
According to the bug itself: I'm not a license expert but I would
try to convince upstream to change their license. To accomplish this
it would be great to have a web site explaining clearly the issue
for the audience of upstream documentation authors and what we
suggest to solve the problem. I guess we have some snippets of
text laying around in mailing list discussions but having it collected
in some single place well prepared for making it clear to Debian
outsiders would be very helpful.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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| Ricardo Mones 2004-08-22, 6:11 pm |
| On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 15:46:02 +0200 (CEST)
Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de> wrote:
> But many of these authors do not really understand all these DFSG - GFDL
> issues. SO why not setting up a web site which explains the problem
> clearly for the target audience?
Doesn't http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/..._Statement.html
serve enough? It did for me :-)
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| Joe Wreschnig 2004-08-22, 6:11 pm |
| On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 08:46, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hello,
>
> a lot of documentation packages got serious bugs filed because of using non-DFSG
> free licenses. I tagged one of my packages (zope-book) "help" at
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugr...ug=266417&msg=6
>
> and I think I should raise this issue here because it might concern others
> as well. The main idea of this request for help is that maintainers of
> all these packages which are concerned try all on their own to convince
> authors to change their license. But many of these authors do not really
> understand all these DFSG - GFDL issues. SO why not setting up a web site
> which explains the problem clearly for the target audience?
http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/..._Statement.html is a draft
position statement about the FDL. It is not an official Debian
publication (nor does it seem likely to become one soon, for incredibly
stupid reasons), but reflects the feelings of many DDs, and seems to do
what you want.
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| Andreas Tille 2004-08-22, 6:11 pm |
| On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Joe Wreschnig wrote:
> http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/..._Statement.html is a draft
> position statement about the FDL. It is not an official Debian
> publication (nor does it seem likely to become one soon, for incredibly
> stupid reasons), but reflects the feelings of many DDs, and seems to do
> what you want.
This is in fact an good link. I would love to see it more visible.
Thanks
Andreas.
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| Robert Millan 2004-08-28, 3:19 pm |
| On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 03:46:02PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
>
> To quote my "call for help":
>
> According to the bug itself: I'm not a license expert but I would
> try to convince upstream to change their license. To accomplish this
> it would be great to have a web site explaining clearly the issue
> for the audience of upstream documentation authors and what we
> suggest to solve the problem. I guess we have some snippets of
> text laying around in mailing list discussions but having it collected
> in some single place well prepared for making it clear to Debian
> outsiders would be very helpful.
Here's a good one:
http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html
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