Guido Trotter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I've been asked by the debian release team to look into this bug and see what > can be done to have a successful resolution... The situation seems to be this > one: > > 1) maxdb-doc is a package which contains some GPL licensed html manual files > 2) the GPL asks for the source code (defined as: "preferred form of the work > for > making modifications to it") to be available > 3) the html files are determined to be automatically generated by a tool > called > "SAP Html Export", and the files which originate them are not available
This sounds like as if the content was in some weird format before, maybe a database with SAP frontend? If this is true, the first thing you'd do if you want to maintain *and* distribute the content as part of some software would be to export it from that database. Not only because the database is non-free, but also because it doesn't seem like a preferred form of modification if you want to edit documentation, and if you want it to be packaged in a tar.gz. If this is true, I don't see why this is necessarily "missing source". Where the files exported a long time ago, and are now maintained as html files? Or are they newly exported every release? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)