On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 06:27:58PM -0500, David Merrill wrote: > On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 03:48:41PM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > > I haven't followed the discussion in detail, but I understand the > > problems are with invariant sections used on anything but rather small > > sections of text (typically the copyright itself, a note about company > > sponsorship, or things like that). Documents without invariant sections > > are fine as far as I know. > > I think we have only 1 or 2 that might even be questionable. I know 1 > has a section added when it was archived. It shouldn't be an issue.
We don't currently distribute HOWTOs that have been archived (if by that you mean the documents in unmaintained/), so that should be OK. > > My current plan is to have my refresh scripts get the XML database dump > > first, then use that plus a set of licence rules to decide which > > documents to download to produce this month's doc-linux tarball. The > > main problem is likely to be deciding which of the documents with > > licences flagged as "OTHER" are free and which aren't, which is where > > debian-legal's decisions about documentation licences are likely to > > become most important. > > Other usually means non-free, in my experience. Those "licenses" are > usually just a statement that it is freely distributable, not a formal > license. OK. I'll have a look through a selection of them as and when I have time and see if I find any that are DFSG-free, in which case I can make case-by-case exceptions for packaging. > What is the latest we could put off the actual implementation? I want > a chance to get as many documents as possible relicensed before it > goes into Woody. Let's try to minimize the impact, heh? The standard freeze, which includes doc-linux, starts on December 8 and finishes (as I understand it) a month after that. I want to allow at least two weeks to get doc-linux-non-free accepted and to make sure there aren't any major packaging problems, so we need to start the implementation as soon as possible and upload a nearly-final version three weeks from now. Tweaks can be made after that if necessary. Unless there are further objections, the conversations in this thread suggest I should divide the package as follows: doc-linux: GFDL, GPL, OPL, PD doc-linux-non-free: LDPL, NONE, OTHER It will also be worth investigating the packages of LDP translations. As far as I can tell, the ones that are parts of tasks and so subject to the next stage of the freeze are the Spanish, Japanese, and Chinese translations; I've cc'ed their maintainers so they're aware of the problem. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
