On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 1:30 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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!
Okay, I didn't understand that. If he is fine with it then so am I. His efforts have been very valuable for Sage, I think, and also he has helped me (off-list) a lot with Guava, so I didn't want to seem unappreciative of his contribution. > > William > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
