Achim Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Russ Allbery wrote on 25 Jul 2006:
>> When you do convert things to texinfo (the existing texinfo >> documentation is already covered by GFDL), please, if you can, keep the >> current GFDL license that is on the existing documentation. In >> particular, please don't add Cover Texts, Invariant Sections, etc., if >> at all possible. Right now, the documentation can be distributed with >> Debian, but if invariant sections are added, the documentation becomes >> non-free and I have to remove it from Debian main. > Sometimes I get the feeling that working with/on debian is like > practising a certain religion ;-). It certainly requires dealing with more annoying bits of the law than I'd really prefer, although in this case I do see the point. If one can't modify it, it's not particularly free, and while RMS doesn't care if not all the documentation is free, I think Debian has a good principle. But in practice, the whole thing is just annoying. Thankfully, there really isn't much utility in all the invariant bits the GFDL lets you do, so there's a good workaround by just avoiding all of it. > BTW, Russ, I'm doing the packaging for RadHat/SuSE, etc. Shall we > somehow join our work and agree on a common versioning? We still are at > 0.14-3. I would like to get a "stable" product and a > current/unstable/beta/alpha (call it however you like) version, but we > never agreed on certain numbers. Well, currently Debian has a package of a CVS snapshot because my repeated pleading for a 0.15 release hasn't born any fruit yet. :) I'm planning on updating that snapshot at least one more time before the freeze for etch, which is in October. Of course, if there were a 0.15 release, I'd love to package that instead. The version number I'm using currently is 0.14.3+20060520 indicating that it's 0.14.3 plus the changes from CVS up to 2006-05-20. (There's a -2 on the end for the Debian revision, but we can't really standardize on that, as that changes every time I have to fix something internal to Debian.) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> _______________________________________________ Bug-gnubg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnubg
