This is all a little silly, but as you may be aware, Debian considers the GFDL to be non-free.[1]
The GSL is currently packaged for Debian, and the docs are under the GFDL with some invariant sections. Debian considers those invariant sections to be nonfree. The current Debian maintainer doesn't want to go through the hassle of splitting the GSL distribution into a free and a non-free part and moving all of the docs to non-free. I tend to agree with him. That being said, is it in any way conceivable that the GSL doc could be relicensed? It would suffice for Debian to not mark any section as invariant. I think overall it would be nice to put all of the GSL, including the documentation, under the GPL, but I am aware that some people disagree that documentation is software too. I am asking because it would be easier for us to simply leave all of the GSL in main instead of having to go through the hassle, both for the Debian maintainers and for our users, of moving parts of it to non-free. By the way, I am asking this not because I particularly agree that the GFDL is such a non-free license, but because the rest of Debian does, and as a practical matter, it would just be easier for us if it were relicensed. Thanks, - Jordi G. H. [1] http://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_001 _______________________________________________ Help-gsl mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gsl
