Hi, Almost a year and a half on from the original discussion, I've finally split the doc-linux package into free and non-free components (this is what the cc'ed discussion from [EMAIL PROTECTED] about the "manifesto boilerplate licence" refers to). doc-linux-nonfree is waiting for ftpmaster approval, and may take a little while since it has a monster copyright file. Currently, just under 10% of the HOWTO and mini-HOWTO documents are in non-free.
I welcome comments on the licensing interpretation I've attempted to perform. The broken-down results of the audit are in debian/copyrights/ in doc-linux 2003.05-1, or http://riva.ucam.org/svn/cjwatson/src/debian/doc-linux/copyrights/ for the up-to-date results in my Subversion repository. On a subject no doubt close to your heart right now, there are currently 114 documents under GFDL 1.1 without Invariant Sections, 9 documents under GFDL 1.1 with Invariant Sections, and 8 documents under GFDL 1.2 without Invariant Sections. Right now, I've put all GFDL documents without Invariant Sections in main, regardless of the version; if a concrete project-wide decision is or has been made on 1.2-no-invariants then please let me know. It's not much extra effort for me to move things around on a per-licence basis when making an upload. My general impression is that the number of GFDL 1.2 documents is increasing rapidly, despite its currently small size. If it's going to be a problem we should get the word out quickly somewhere that Google likes. (Please cc me on replies; I'm afraid I ran out of stamina for the bulk of debian-legal a while back.) Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
