AW: Bug#346354: Is distribution of the maxdb-doc package a GPL violation?

2006-04-26 Thread debian
Hi, >> >> This seems to be a problem only because the GPL is used... Would the >> files be under a less restrictive licence we would be perfectly OK >> distributing them as is... > >Sort of. Debian requires source for everything that it distributes in >main. If it were not GPL'd, it would still

Re: Is distribution of the maxdb-doc package a GPL violation?

2006-04-26 Thread Walter Landry
Guido Trotter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi! > > I've been asked by the debian release team to look into this bug and see what > can be done to have a successful resolution... The situation seems to be this > one: > > 1) maxdb-doc is a package which contains some GPL licensed html manual fil

Re: Is distribution of the maxdb-doc package a GPL violation?

2006-04-26 Thread Francesco Poli
On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 16:59:27 -0400 Joe Smith wrote: > So the real source is a Microsoft Word docuement. However, I suspect > Debian users would normally "prefer" to edit HTML files, than MS Word > Documents. I certainly prefer manually-edited (X)HTML to MS Word Doc, but I don't know if I would p

Re: Tremulous packages

2006-04-26 Thread Joe Smith
"Heretik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi list, I ITP Tremulous for Debian (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=363581) and have some license concerns. I have one source package and three binary packages : tremulous, tremulous-data and tremulous-ser

Re: Is distribution of the maxdb-doc package a GPL violation?

2006-04-26 Thread Joe Smith
"Frank Küster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Guido Trotter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi! I've been asked by the debian release team to look into this bug and see what can be done to have a successful resolution... The situation seems to be this one: 1) maxd

Tremulous packages

2006-04-26 Thread Heretik
Hi list, I ITP Tremulous for Debian (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=363581) and have some license concerns. I have one source package and three binary packages : tremulous, tremulous-data and tremulous-server Here are the licenses : - The main code is GPL : no problem - The d

Re: Packages containing RFCs

2006-04-26 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 11:32:30AM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: > Hi all! > > I just noticed that heimdal-docs contained copies of RFCs, which I > believe are licensed under a non-free license, so I filed bug #364860. > > Then I looked at what other packages in testing may have the same > proble

Re: Packages containing RFCs

2006-04-26 Thread Stephen Frost
* MJ Ray ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Then I looked at what other packages in testing may have the same > > problem, and the list below is what I found. It is not that large, > > and better than I would expect. > > > > Should we file bug reports for these p

Re: Packages containing RFCs

2006-04-26 Thread MJ Ray
Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Then I looked at what other packages in testing may have the same > problem, and the list below is what I found. It is not that large, > and better than I would expect. > > Should we file bug reports for these packages, or is there a better > way to handle th

Re: Is distribution of the maxdb-doc package a GPL violation?

2006-04-26 Thread Frank Küster
Guido Trotter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I've been asked by the debian release team to look into this bug and see what > can be done to have a successful resolution... The situation seems to be this > one: > > 1) maxdb-doc is a package which contains some GPL licensed html manual files >

Is distribution of the maxdb-doc package a GPL violation?

2006-04-26 Thread Guido Trotter
Hi! I've been asked by the debian release team to look into this bug and see what can be done to have a successful resolution... The situation seems to be this one: 1) maxdb-doc is a package which contains some GPL licensed html manual files 2) the GPL asks for the source code (defined as: "pref

Packages containing RFCs

2006-04-26 Thread Simon Josefsson
Hi all! I just noticed that heimdal-docs contained copies of RFCs, which I believe are licensed under a non-free license, so I filed bug #364860. Then I looked at what other packages in testing may have the same problem, and the list below is what I found. It is not that large, and better than I