Re: Automatically creating non-free manual pages

2003-06-13 Thread Klaus Reimer
Hallo, On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 03:16:14PM -0400, Don Armstrong wrote: On Mon, 09 Jun 2003, Klaus Reimer wrote: D. J. Bernstein maintains a website with documentation texts but because all these texts are not licensed under a DFSG-free license it is not possible to convert these pages into

Re: Automatically creating non-free manual pages

2003-06-13 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Klaus Reimer wrote: On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 03:16:14PM -0400, Don Armstrong wrote: To remove confusion, could you please specify which license these manuals or texts are under and link directly to them on DJB's website? There is no license. Hrm. Well, that usually

Re: Automatically creating non-free manual pages

2003-06-13 Thread Klaus Reimer
Hallo, On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 02:16:49PM -0400, Don Armstrong wrote: Assuming the use fell under fair use, it would be legal. It's definetly not legal for debian to distribute the man pages, but I don't think it would be a big deal for users to use such a program. What do you think about

Re: Automatically creating non-free manual pages

2003-06-13 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Klaus Reimer wrote: What do you think about debian packages like daemontools-installer which could use such a program to create the man pages and put them into the resulting debian packages? As I understand this this is quite ok because the user starts build-daemontools to

Automatically creating non-free manual pages

2003-06-09 Thread Klaus Reimer
Hello, There are some packages in the Debian Distribution from D. J. Bernstein. (http://cr.yp.to/). Some of these packages (daemontools-installer, djbdns-installer, ucspi-tcp-src) don't provide manual pages for the binaries. D. J. Bernstein maintains a website with documentation texts but because

Re: Automatically creating non-free manual pages

2003-06-09 Thread David B Harris
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 20:10:39 +0200 Klaus Reimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not a lawyer so I don't know if this text is good enough. Also I'm not a native english-speaker so maybe this is not really good english. So I would be glad about improvements of the above text. The text looks good

Re: Automatically creating non-free manual pages

2003-06-09 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 09 Jun 2003, Klaus Reimer wrote: D. J. Bernstein maintains a website with documentation texts but because all these texts are not licensed under a DFSG-free license it is not possible to convert these pages into man pages and put them in the *-installer/*-src-Packages. To remove