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. brad112...@gmail.com writes: > <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 > b...@debian.org > brad112...@gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > bug-idutils mailing list > bug-idutils@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-idutils -- Ramon Diaz-Uriarte Department of Biochemistry, Lab B-25 Facultad de Medicina Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Arzobispo Morcillo, 4 28029 Madrid Spain Phone: +34-91-497-2412 Email: rdia...@gmail.com ramon.d...@iib.uam.es http://ligarto.org/rdiaz _______________________________________________ bug-idutils mailing list bug-idutils@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-idutils
