On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 10:27 AM, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> This could make it harder for Timothy Abbott to create debian versions.
> Based on some posted to debian-science, it appears that certain
> debian maintainers have a negative view of the GNU FDL, which some
> documentation is licensed under. Pushing FDL docs into a GPL's package
> might make the entire thing "non-free". I know this sounds idiotic, and
> maybe I'm wrong. But if I'm right this idea of combining these things
> could generate some extra work on Tim Abbott's end.

The extra work would mean that he doesn't copy the doc/ subdirectory
of the spkg when he makes the .deb.   Given the tremendous
effort Tim has already put in, I think he can handle this!

William

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