On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 04:54:01PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On 20 Jun 2006, Colin Watson verbalised: > > It's dual-licensed upstream; I contacted upstream years ago about > > this issue (before it became particularly public that Debian had a > > problem with the licence) and arranged for the following statement > > to be added to the top-level LICENSES file: > > > > All files part of groff are licensed under this version of the GPL > > (or licenses which are compatible with the GPL). You are free to > > choose version 2 or any subsequent version of the GPL. > > > > Unfortunately, for technical reasons (see bug #196762), it is > > extremely difficult to upgrade to the new upstream release. If you > > like, I can simply include a note in the copyright file with similar > > contents to this e-mail, although I don't know if that's good form. > > Unfortunately, I think that means we have to take the stance > that the old version is non-free, but the future version is freed; > unless we can get upstream to release the version in Debian with the > new license.
I guess in that case I will have to resume efforts to get 1.19 sorted out more urgently. I don't want to embark upon the busy-work of splitting documentation out into a separate package only to put it back in again later ... -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
