Hi all, [message BCCed to aj]
I wanted you all to be aware how Sarge is treating Documentation and the DFSG: <http://people.debian.org/~ajt/sarge_rc_policy.txt> Documentation in main and contrib must be freely distributable, and wherever possible should be under a DFSG-free license. This will likely become a requirement post-sarge. What this means is that even though people like myself have argued that all software (including its associated documentation) in main and contrib should be DFSG-free, the fact that some documentation is not DFSG-free should not hold up the release of Sarge. If release critical bugs are filed against the DFSG-freeness of documentation then it is likely the bug report should be also tagged "sarge-ignore" [after explicit authorisation from the release manager, note the authorisiation typo in sarge_rc_policy.txt]. Given the aggressive (and endearingly optimistic) timetable of releasing Sarge this December[0!] I support this pragmatic decision. Regards, Adam [1] <http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/debian-devel-announce-200308/msg00010.html>
