Hi Odin, I am taking over maintainership of oidentd in Debian and there is an open bug report concerning the GFDL licensing of the man pages in doc/ [1]. The problem is that the wording is ambigious; the GFDL specifies how to remove the limitations of invariant sections and front- and back-cover texts [2].
The Debian project has had a long discussion about the GFDL in general, with the result being that GFDL-licensed work with no invariant sections is ok for Debian main [3]. Yet, the GFDL appears to impose difficulties for the distribtion of work, so I tend to dislike it a lot. In any case, the bug report at [1] is reasonable, and I kindly ask you to accept one of the following solutions, ordered by my personal preference descendingly ;): a) relicense the man pages under a different license, e.g. CC-BY-SA-3.0, MIT, BSD, … b) relicense under GFDL-1.3 *and* use the official wording [2] c) keep the current license, but update to the official wording [2] Please note that the decision must not be specific to Debian, but a general license grant. Looking forward to your feedback, Nik [1]: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=712393 [2]: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-1.1.html#SEC4 [3]: http://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_001 -- Wer den Grünkohl nicht ehrt, ist der Mettwurst nicht wert! PGP-Fingerprint: 3C9D 54A4 7575 C026 FB17 FD26 B79A 3C16 A0C4 F296
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