Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > David, > > Sorry for the belated reply. > > * David Bateman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-04-10 11:10]: > > >> There remains the same issue with the comms toolbox where a similar >> mechanism is used to build the documentation. For my code (a large part >> of this toolbox) I give permission to release the documentation of the >> code I'm response for under the terms of the license on the title page >> of the comms.pdf file. >> > > Could you please sort this out with the other authors of the communications > package? > There are many and so that might be a difficult option.. Perhaps we should investigate further the solutions below..
> * David Bateman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-04-10 11:15]: > > >> Just a further question, if the documentation is distributed as part of >> the package itself under a GPL license then the only issue is the >> inclusion of the fixed.texi and/or fixed.txi file within the package >> tar-ball. >> > > Yes, distribution of the source is a requirement of the DFSG (see item 2, > http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines). > Then I'll add the sources to the package and it'll be in the next octave-forge release. I'd suggest adding the *.texi files as the perl scripts mkdoc and mktexi from octave-forge then won't be needed. > >> The documentation is delivered with the source files where the help strings >> are taken and so there is nominally no GPL violation in that case. >> > > I am not a license expert and I have no idea whether including GPL code in a > non-GPL released documentation is okay. I think it boils down to making > sure the licensing conditions expressed in fixed.txi are compatible with the > GPL. For the debian-legal people following this thread, here are the > conditions: > > Copyright (C) 2004 Motorola Inc > > Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of > this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice > are preserved on all copies. > > Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this > manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the entire > resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission > notice identical to this one. > > Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this manual > into another language, under the same conditions as for modified versions. > Isn't the above license GPL compatible? If it isn't I don't think there is an issue of change the license of this and the comms.txi file to have a GPL compatible license. All text in the fixed.pdf file is mine and I have the release paper work internal that would allow me to re-release under a GPL compatible documentation license. As for comms.pdf the fixed text from comms.txi is all mine and the rest of the text is taken from the functions that are GPLed. So a GPL compatible documentation license would fixed that as well. So if the above license isn't compatible with the GPL what is a compatible license as I see no issues in changing it to something else. > > >> If its only the issue of the inclusion of fixed.{texi,txi} that is the >> issue that is preventing the packages inclusion in debian I have no >> objections to including these in the package tar-ball. >> > > I think that including fixed.texi should be enough, even though it is > derived source. Including fixed.txi also will not hurt, although it cannot > be used to build fixed.texi from the tarball alone. > > At any rate, you could slightly change the terms of the licensing terms by > adding that copy and modification of both source and derived forms of the > documentation are allowed. > > Can debian legal express the exact terms that you want to make this acceptable and sure I'll make the change. Or alternative propose another license. Looking at the GFDL I don't think it would be compatible with taking text from GPLed code, as the requirement to supply the source code is removed. Ideas? Regards David -- David Bateman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Motorola Labs - Paris +33 1 69 35 48 04 (Ph) Parc Les Algorithmes, Commune de St Aubin +33 6 72 01 06 33 (Mob) 91193 Gif-Sur-Yvette FRANCE +33 1 69 35 77 01 (Fax) The information contained in this communication has been classified as: [x] General Business Information [ ] Motorola Internal Use Only [ ] Motorola Confidential Proprietary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
