Hi! [please Cc: me on replies, I am not subscribed but read through the archive]
I've found a quite strange thing in one of my moin installs, and I need to get some more opinions on it before I write the RC bug against the package. It is a German license text, so people not able to understand German might have a problem. I'll though try to translate the part that I think is a problem. See this as a start: <http://de.gwendoline.at/wiki/WikiSchulung_2fBasisEinf_fchrung> "This talk was developed by the WEB.DE AG and kindly provided to the terms of the IFL-Text v1.0 for all users of MoinMoin." This is the first part, it has "for all users of MoinMoin" in it, but doesn't say about others. But that part can be ignored, because the IFL-Text v1.0 doesn't restrict the user base. But there are other issues I have with IFL-Text v1.0: <http://www.ifross.de/ifross_html/ifl.html> Pargraph 2: Changes of the Text Documents (1) Anyone has the right to add to distributions of the text document one or more parts. The additions must be clearly be visible, especially by using a different font, a different color or other font tweakings. (2) ... shorten ... clearly be visible. (3) ... change ... clearly be visible. This is IMHO not really free. If the changes must be made so that they stand out of the original text it is in my interpretation not free. Do other agree? (4) If you copy a modified text document, distribute it or make it available to the public, the place of the original text must be noted. This is even more a problem, because what about when the original text changes its place? Are people needed to run after it and look to keep these notes up to date? ... there might be other problems with this license, especially Paragraph 4 jumps to my eye, too; but this are the major points I'd like to get addressed. If those are considered DFSG compatible (or rather, they have to be GPL compatible because moin itself is released under the GPL), then we can elaborate on those, too. But I think the above things will fail already. Thanks in advance for taking a look. Alfie P.S.: This mail goes in Cc: to the Debian Maintainer of moin and the Upstream Author of moin so they are aware of the discussion. They shall judge themself if they want to step in or receive copies, so don't spam them with replies if they didn't mention yet. :) -- wenn sich aber manche howto und man und was weiß ich nicht für installanleitungen und hilfen sich anschaut, fragt man sich wirklichen ob das nicht ausserirdische gepinselt haben, oder nicht -- _[puffy]_ in #debian.de
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