Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Can he simply change the section of gnuhell-doc (with appropriate >> overrides changes) to non-free/doc? This would mean that the GFDL >> documentation is still in the pristine original tar file, but >> distributed in binary form in the correct package. > > As a practical matter, it is not, AFAIK, possible (or at least, not > acceptable) to create non-free binary packages from source packages in > main, nor vice-versa.
Actually (as a practical matter) it currently is... but at some point, I'll get bored and break it (deliberately). >> Or does he have to remove the GFDL-infected documentation from the >> tar file, thereby creating a Debian-native package and remove all >> trace and It doesn't need to be Debian-native in the sense of '.tar.gz' vs. 'orig.tar.gz'. 'orig.tar.gz' doesn't have to mean pristine and 'orig.tar.gz' is almost always preferable to '.tar.gz'. > As a question of principle, I also believe this is the correct > practice because of the contract we've made stating that everything > in our main archive is covered by the freedoms listed in the DFSG. Agreed. -- James
