Re: GFDL - status?

2003-07-05 Thread MJ Ray
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I like that document. Everyone concerned about the GNU FDL issue should > read it. Unfortunately, it makes the error of confusing the word "documentation" with the word "document," I think. I'm not sure it was ever claimed that a GFDL document was fr

Re: GFDL - status?

2003-07-05 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 04:41:28PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Nathanael Nerode > Why not to use the GNU FDL: > http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html Wow. Most Apropos Sig Ever. :) I like that document. Everyone concerned about the GNU FDL issue should read it. -- G. Brande

Re: GFDL - status?

2003-07-05 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 04:41:28PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Branden said: > >We should probably go ahead with another draft of that document, yes. > > Right, so is anyone doing that? I have not been. I have also been feeling guilty about not doing so. -- G. Branden Robinson

removing the "draft" from the DDP policy

2003-07-05 Thread Branden Robinson
[I am not subscribed to debian-doc; please follow-up to debian-legal.] # Subject: Let's remove the 'draft' from the DDP Policy # From: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # To: debian-doc@lists.debian.org # Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:55:11 +0200 > Since no one has spoken against the

Re: GFDL - status?

2003-07-05 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Branden said: >On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 02:17:55PM -, MJ Ray wrote: >> Mark Rafn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > This reminded me to ask: I haven't seen anything recently on the >topic of >> > what to do about GFDLed Debian packages. What's the current state >of >> > this discussion? >> >

Re: Bug#200003: cpp: contains non-free manpages

2003-07-05 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 04:14:56PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > anyway, I'll wait until Debian's position on the GFDL is documented > somewhere and then address all these together. How is that relevant? -- Glenn Maynard

Re: Bug#200003: cpp: contains non-free manpages

2003-07-05 Thread Matthias Klose
Henning Makholm writes: > Scripsit Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > gpl(7): that can be replaced with a reference to > > /usr/share/misc/common-licenses > > > gfdl(7): that's included (as text, rather than a tagged manpage) in > > /usr/share/cpp-3.3/copyright already, and is therefore re

Re: Bug#200003: cpp: contains non-free manpages

2003-07-05 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > gpl(7): that can be replaced with a reference to > /usr/share/misc/common-licenses > gfdl(7): that's included (as text, rather than a tagged manpage) in > /usr/share/cpp-3.3/copyright already, and is therefore redundant And in any case, it seems to

Re: Bug#200003: cpp: contains non-free manpages

2003-07-05 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 09:16:41AM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > gpl(7): that can be replaced with a reference to > /usr/share/misc/common-licenses /usr/share/common-licenses Foo. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | Dept. of Computing, `. `'

Re: Bug#200003: cpp: contains non-free manpages

2003-07-05 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 10:18:50PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > Andrew Suffield writes: > > Package: cpp > > Severity: serious > > > > The manpages fsf-funding(7), gpl(7), and gfdl(7) are included in the > > cpp package. These are clearly non-free (non-modifiable). > > this doesn't make sense.