Re: [bug-idutils] idutils documentation license for Debian

[Jim Meyering]

Thanks for reaching out, Brad.

I want to handle this the way it was done for gzip.  Any objection to
this change?



On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Greg McGary <address@hidden> wrote:
> I must have had some hand in initial authorship of the info manual, though
> it has been so many years now, I can't say how much it has changed over the
> years.  In any case, I am willing to dual-license whatever might be my part.
>
> G
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> On 08/10/13 18:24, Brad Bosch wrote:
>
> Looks like I had some old email addresses for Jim, Greg, and Tom.  Here is
> another try.  But I can't find another address for Tom.  Is anyone still in
> contact with him?
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Brad Bosch <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Gentlemen,
>>
>> I am the Debian developer who has maintained the id-utils package for many
>> years.  Some time ago, it was brought to my attention that the current
>> idutils documentation license is not compatible with Debian policy because
>> of the invariant first and last pages/section.  I understand that the FSF
>> has been rather inflexible in this regard with other packages.
>>
>> The documentation has been removed from recent versions of the package to
>> allow it to continue to be a part of the Debian distribution, but I would
>> like to be able to restore it to the package.  I could create a new
>> documentation only package and place it in the non-free Debian package
>> archive, but this is inconvenient and potentially confusing for users and
>> extra work for me.  I know that the documentation was once explicitly not
>> copyrighted, so I suppose I could also locate and adopt an older version,
>> but this is clearly not ideal and also involves duplicated effort to update
>> the old version to some extent.
>>
>> I understand that the FSF allows authors to dual license their work under
>> the GPL.  I am unsure if all of you are considered document authors or even
>> if I may have missed someone.  Can you clarify the actual authorship of the
>> document for me please?  If you are a copyright worthy author, are you
>> willing to dual-license your idutils documentation under some version of the
>> GPL?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any help you can provide in this matter!
>>
>> --Brad Bosch
>> address@hidden
>> address@hidden
>>
>>
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