I must have had some hand in initial authorship of the info manual, though
it has been so many years now, I can't say how much it has changed over the
years. In any case, I am willing to dual-license whatever might be my part.
G
On 08/10/13 18:24, Brad Bosch wrote:
Looks like I had some old email addresses for Jim, Greg, and Tom. Here
is another try. But I can't find another address for Tom. Is anyone
still in contact with him?
On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Brad Bosch <brad112...@gmail.com
<mailto:brad112...@gmail.com>> wrote:
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
b...@debian.org <mailto:b...@debian.org>
brad112...@gmail.com <mailto:brad112...@gmail.com>
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