Mattias Ellert writes ("Standardization documents in xsd and wsdl format"): > Various standardization bodies like e.g. W3C and OASIS that publish data > communication standards, provide xsd and/or wsdl files describing these > standards. These files, though machine readable and parsable by various > interpreters, are often published with a documentation license rather > than a software license since they are considered part of the > standardization document rather than software that helps users implement > the standard. Standardization bodies tend to want to not have random > people making random changes to their standardization documents that > would create incompatible versions of the standards. The documentation > licenses used by these organization therefore usually do not allow > modification.
That would make these files non-free. > Are such xsd and wsdl files allowed in Debian source packages, or do > they have to be deleted from the source tarball? Are they allowed to be > installed by Debian binary packages? (I guess the answer to both > questions would be the same.) Current Debian practice is that all non-files, including these, must be removed. You must repack the source tarball. There are a variety of tools to help make this less tiresome. (I think this is pointless make-work but it appears that the project consensus, and the ftpmaster policy, is against me.) Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/21446.36111.251951.58...@chiark.greenend.org.uk