Re: [Groff] Debian considers GNU FDL conditionally free

[Meg McRoberts]

Interesting -- thanks for sending this on.

Dumb question: What consitutes "modifiable documentation"?  Are documents
in a format that requires a proprietary tool considered modifiable?
I'm thinking of Word/OpenOffice or Framemaker.  What about PDF files?
There is now software to turn PDF files into Word documents so it would
be work, but possible...

Just curious...
meg

--- Bernd Warken <address@hidden> wrote:

> The web side http://www.debian.org/News/2006/20060316 states:
> 
> The Debian project has decided that documents distributed under the GNU Free
> Documentation License (FDL) are considered free with regards to the Debian 
> Free
> Software Guidelines (DFSG) if they don't contain any unmodifiable parts.
> 
> This decision has been been reached by a general resolution in which all 
> Debian
> developers had the opportunity to cast a ballot. 369 Debian developers have 
> taken part
> in this vote and the majority of them considers documents released under the 
> GNU FDL
> suitable for the main Debian archive as long as they don't contain 
> unmodifiable
> sections.
> 
> This decision relaxes the former interpretation of this situation, after 
> which all
> documents distributed under the GNU FDL had to be removed from the archive. 
> Some of
> them may be kept in the archive.
> 
> This vote has effect for the upcoming release of "etch" since this outcome 
> results in
> the need for many developers to check documentation for unmodifiable parts. 
> However,
> much documentation may be kept in the main Debian archive even if it is 
> licensed under
> the GNU FDL.
> 
> Bernd Warken
> 
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