Re: Re: Decision GFDL

2003-08-27 Thread Joe Buck
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 08:48:17PM +0200, Wouter Vanden Hove wrote: Where can I find the actual Debian-decision on the GNU Free Documentation License? Branden Robinson writes: There has been no formal statement issued by the developers, but Debian seldom bothers with such things. We go

Re: Re: Decision GFDL

2003-08-27 Thread Richard Braakman
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 02:19:06PM -0700, Joe Buck wrote: I don't think the line that there is consensus on debian-legal will wash, unless you overrule the sarge release masters and take the manuals out now. I don't mean to pick on you, I've just seen a number of similar statements. I hope

Re: Re: Decision GFDL

2003-08-27 Thread Adam Warner
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 09:19, Joe Buck wrote: My role in this: I'm not a Debian developer, but I am a member of the GCC steering committee. Our manual is GFDL, and almost all of our developers are unhappy about it. We're running into legal issues with things like doxygen-generated libstdc++

Re: Re: Decision GFDL

2003-08-27 Thread MJ Ray
On 2003-08-27 22:19:06 +0100 Joe Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nevertheless, lack of something that can be pointed to as official [...] Have ftpmasters rejected any FDL-licensed works yet? [...] Otherwise, vital packages like glibc are going to have release-critical bugs. Don't they