On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 09:52:14PM +0200, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > The name "Open Publication License" is right, the URL was wrong.
Could you please correct the URL then? I guess the following is the correct one: http://opencontent.org/openpub/ > The book by Steve Oualline uses this license, I used it for the Vim > documentation to avoid any trouble. Otherwise I don't care much what > license is used exactly. So we have quite a problem in Debian now, regarding the Vim Manual :-( The Open Publication License is not a free license according to the Debian Free Software Guidelines [1]. This has been discussed on the debian-legal mailing list, the conclusion and the discussions are available in the Debian wiki [2]. The bug report Cc-ed is a bug raising this issue [3]. As the things are now, we will be forced to remove the vim manual from the free section of the Debian archive and move it to non-free. Users will then be able to install vim with the default debian configuration, but wont be able to do it without adding the non-free archives to their repository configuration. I fear that this would also mean that vim wont be the standard vi-like editor in the debian distribution :-(( Do you think it is possible to relicense the manual under a different license? (The best possible is usually the same that applies to the source code of the program itself). How many parts are taken from Oualline's book? Is it possible to rewrite them? We are of course willing to help in that, but maybe we are luckily enough that no more parts took from the book are still in the help ... Many thanks in advance, Cheers. [1] http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines [2] http://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses#head-add2e754f3a906f07e4ff1c050a2548f04ef4cbe [3] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=384019 -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. -!-
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