Hi, I found this problem in vim's English manual when I tried[1] to package the Chinese translation of vim documents. To know the problem, just type ":help manual-copyright" in vim editor. It clearly states that the Vim user manual and reference manual are using Open Publication License, v1.0 or later which is considered[2] as DFSG-incompatible. They use OPL because some parts of the manual are come from the book "Vi IMproved - Vim" by Steve Oualline. The Open Publication License applies to this book.
In my point of view, the OPL license make the vim manual non-free. It shouldn't be put in main as part of vim-runtime package. I couldn't find any previous discussion about this issue on internet, so could you please review the problem and give some comments and suggestions on it? Thanks. BTW, I found rubybook[3] use OPL too. The related bug[4] was tagged as sarge-ignore. Nothing happened after sarge release. It looks like the bug will have an etch-ignore tag soon. [1] http://bugs.debian.org/303366 [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/03/msg00226.html [3] http://packages.debian.org/rubybook [4] http://bugs.debian.org/266410 I will cc this mail to debian-devel list, becasue the vim package is quite important and the issue is related with etch release. debian-legal user, please cc me. thanks. -- Best Regards, Carlos http://wiki.debian.org/CarlosLiu
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