Le Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 02:28:48PM -0800, Don Armstrong a écrit : > > You'll note that I don't say anything about what you say the source > is. I talk about what the author *uses*. Since you're not the author, > and it's apparently obvious, even to you, that the PDFs came from tex > source, that's what we should assume.
Le Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 12:32:47AM +0100, Joerg Jaspert a écrit : > > And you know, our SC states "Debian will remain 100% free", it doesnt > say Free Software. > If you do want to include things that can't go into main: contrib or > non-free is for espeically for that, to make it easy for our users if > something doesn't fit the more strict rules main has... Le Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 10:45:03AM -0500, Marvin Renich a écrit : > > So Charles (the OP) could include his XML-based docs in the package in > main, and create a separate package in non-free for the original docs > (provided that Debian can distribute them) if he thinks the difference > in aesthetic quality is worth the effort. Dear all, Indeed, because I do not see a positive outcome from this discussion, I splitted the upstream sources between dialign-t_0.2.2.dfsg.orig.tar.gz in which I removed the doc directory, and dialign-t-doc_0.2.2.orig.gz that contains only the doc directory, the LGPL.TXT and LICENCE.TXT files. The dialign-t-doc package has been uploaded to non-free despite the fact that all its files are licenced under the LGPL, because it does not satisfy the DFSG#2 under two assumptions that in my opinon are wrong, but that I accept to follow since they seem to be majoritary in Debian: - There is no difference between the formatting instructions that shape the text of a documentation and the code that determines the behaviour of a program. - There is no difference between a file for which the original author never publically published intermediate steps in its creation, and a file for wihch an intermediate has removed source code or formatting instructions that have been published earlier. The documentation of dialign-t lacks files that would make it easier to update the html, pdf and ps files in parallel, this is regrettable, but the information in these files is free and somebody who would want to make a derived version of dialign-t still has plenty of options to update the doc, in particular because what matters is not the format, but the content. PS: Somebody contributed me a latex file which is not the upstream one, but which contains the information from the html documentation. Would this file make the package acceptable for Debian ? Would the file need to be in the tarball, or shipping it in the .diff.gz would be sufficient? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wakō, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
