Package: linuxfacile Version: 5.0.new-5 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.2.1 User: debian-rele...@lists.debian.org Usertags: nonfree-doc gfdl
Hi! This package is licensed under the | terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any | later version published by the Free Software Foundation; | with no Invariant Sections, with one Front-Cover Texts: ``Linux | Facile - di Daniele Medri'', and with no Back-Cover Texts. as stated in http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/l/linuxfacile/current/copyright According to the outcome of GR-2006-001, only | works that don't include any Invariant Sections, Cover Texts, | Acknowledgements, and Dedications (or that do, but permission to | remove them is explicitly granted), are suitable for the main | component of our distribution. (see http://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_001#amendmenttexta) As a consequence, this package is not considered suitable for main by the Debian Project at large, since it includes a Front-Cover Text. There are at least three strategies to fix this bug. In order of preference: a) persuade the upstream author to re-license (or dual-license) the work under the terms of a well-known license that clearly meets the DFSG (e.g.: the GNU GPL v2) b) persuade the upstream author to re-license the work without the Front-Cover Text restriction, or with the explicit permission to remove it c) move the package to non-free Please note that a) is better than b), since the GFDL is always problematic, even for works without non-removable & non-modifiable material: see point 3. of GR-2006-001 outcome (http://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_001#amendmenttexta). For the record, I am personally convinced that GFDL'ed works never comply with the DFSG (that is to say: I would have voted for option 1 in GR-2006-001), but that's another story... Please note that the linuxfacile manual seems to include parts written by people other than Daniele Medri (e.g.: RMS): as a consequence, I am not sure that the manual can be correctly claimed to be only | Copyright (C) 2000-2001 Daniele Medri as stated in http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/l/linuxfacile/current/copyright This may make strategies a) and b) above more difficult to adopt, as *all* copyright holders need to agree to the re-licensing! BTW, the upstream homepage seems to have changed to http://linuxfacile.medri.org/ Please fix this bug. Thanks in advance. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
