Re: [bug-idutils] idutils documentation license for Debian

[Ramon Diaz-Uriarte]

Dear Brad,

I am not sure how much, if anything at all, I contributed to the
documentation. Anyway, I am OK with dual licensing.

Best,

R.

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>  <http://search.gmane.org/?author=Jim+Meyering&sort=date>Gentlemen,
>
> I am the Debian developer who has maintained the id-utils package for many
> years.  Some time ago, it was brought to my attention that the current
> idutils documentation license is not compatible with Debian policy because
> of the invariant first and last pages/section.  I understand that the FSF
> has been rather inflexible in this regard with other packages.
>
> The documentation has been removed from recent versions of the package to
> allow it to continue to be a part of the Debian distribution, but I would
> like to be able to restore it to the package.  I could create a new
> documentation only package and place it in the non-free Debian package
> archive, but this is inconvenient and potentially confusing for users and
> extra work for me.  I know that the documentation was once explicitly not
> copyrighted, so I suppose I could also locate and adopt an older version,
> but this is clearly not ideal and also involves duplicated effort to update
> the old version to some extent.
>
> I understand that the FSF allows authors to dual license their work under
> the GPL.  I am unsure if all of you are considered document authors or even
> if I may have missed someone.  Can you clarify the actual authorship of the
> document for me please?  If you are a copyright worthy author, are you
> willing to dual-license your idutils documentation under some version of
> the GPL?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help you can provide in this matter!
>
> --Brad Bosch
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Universidad Autónoma de Madrid 
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