Package: perl Version: 5.12.3-7 On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 11:50:24AM +0200, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > Am 21.05.2011 08:37, schrieb Niko Tyni:
> > I'm a bit uneasy with the licensing of > > pod/perlembed.pod > > pod/perlmodinstall.pod > > which seems to imply that the document title (and, less importantly, > > author information) is an invariant section that can't be modified. > > > > Is this something that needs to be fixed? Please note that it's been > > like this since at least 1998, so this is not a regression. > > Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this > > documentation under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided also > > that they are marked clearly as modified versions, that the authors' > > names and title are unchanged (though subtitles and additional > > authors' names may be added), and that the entire resulting derived > > work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical > > to this one. > Hmmm... I don't think the restriction of the author is a problematic; > it's quite similar to restrictions regarding license header and a like. > However, the title restriction is different, and does has practical > affects (e.g. when translating a document). Could you please ask > upstream, to drop that restriction? We don't consider it a big problem > (hence I accepted it), but it would be nice to be solved, though. Filing a bug so we don't forget this. -- Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org