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

[Jim Meyering]

If no one objects in the next day or so, I'll make push the proposed
patch (with the amendment Brad suggested).

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 1:44 AM, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Dear Brad,
>
> I am not sure how much, if anything at all, I contributed to the
> documentation. Anyway, I am OK with dual licensing.
>
> Best,
>
> R.
>
> address@hidden writes:
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>>  <http://search.gmane.org/?author=Jim+Meyering&sort=date>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
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