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Re: [bug-mailutils] Documentation for 1.2
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Daniel Kahn Gillmor |
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Re: [bug-mailutils] Documentation for 1.2 |
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Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:47:33 -0400 |
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On 07/13/2009 07:32 AM, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> Debian has rather strange policies regarding the documentation, which
> effectively cause most of GNU manuals to be excluded from their
> distributions.
Here's an attempt to clarify the situation:
As far as i understand it, debian's general resolution in 2006 allows
distribution of GFDL'ed works as long as the work meets the following
standards:
>> This means that works that don't include any Invariant Sections, Cover
>> Texts, Acknowledgements, and Dedications (or that do, but permission to
>> remove them is explicitly granted), are suitable for the main component
>> of our distribution.
the entire resolution (and its losing variants) can be read here:
http://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_001#amendmenttexta
However, mailutils.info-2 contains Front and Back Cover Texts and an
acknowledgements section, which the GFDL explcitly prohibits
modification of.
If mailutils was willing to drop the cover text requirements and
re-title the Acknowledgements section (e.g. to "Thanks"), or was willing
to relicense the documentation under a freer license than the GFDL, then
i believe debian would distribute the documentation.
--dkg
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