On 21 August 2008 at 14:40, Sebastian Harl wrote: | Package: libgsl0-dev | Version: 1.8-2
Any specific reason you looked at a release that is two years old when we have one from this year? | Severity: serious | Justification: Policy 2.2.1, GR 2006-001 | | Hi, | | The documentation shipped with libgsl [1] is licensed under the GNU Free | Documentation License with invariant sections. This is a conflict with | the DFSG [2], point 3 (Derived Works), and thus must not be shipped in | Debian main. This position has been confirmed in GR 2006-001 [3]. For | further information see Manoj's Draft Debian Position Statement about | the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) [4]. | | The documentation is a valid candidate for non-free though. For example, | see the gcc-4.3-doc-non-dfsg and gcc-4.3 packages. What is the minimal changeset I need to apply: - do I need to split the upstream tarball into two, one blessed and ready for main (but free of documentation) and one shunned and to be discarded into non-free, or can I proceed with one ? If it is two, do I have to re-create configure etc tools for the second package? - I will serve my users by hiding the documentation from then. Now as non-free is 'not part of Debian' I can't Suggests: or Recommends: the docs either, right ? Dirk | Cheers, | Sebastian | | [1] License of the GSL Reference Manual: | | Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document | under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or | any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with the | Invariant Sections being "GNU General Public License" and "Free Software | Needs Free Documentation", the Front-Cover text being "A GNU Manual", | and with the Back-Cover Text being (a) (see below). A copy of the | license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation | License". | | (a) The Back-Cover Text is: "You have freedom to copy and modify this | GNU Manual, like GNU software." | | [2] http://www.debian.org/social_contract | | [3] http://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_001 | | [4] http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/Position_Statement.xhtml | | -- | Sebastian "tokkee" Harl +++ GnuPG-ID: 0x8501C7FC +++ http://tokkee.org/ | | Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary | Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin | -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
