Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 05:35:51AM -0700, Walter Landry wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I have verfified that the actual sources for the generated HTML are > > > Microsoft Word documents and that those will not be > > > distributed. Does the mean that the maxdb-doc package will have to > > > be pulled from the repository? > > > Yes, unless you get a license exemption from the copyright holder > > allowing Debian and its mirrors to distribute the HTML as is. They > > will probably agree. In that case, it goes into non-free. > > It's not obvious to me that either the license exemption or the non-free > categorization are necessary here. GPL requires the "preferred form for > modification", which for most people working on derivative works would > probably *not* be the Word docs?
The people actually doing modifications use the Word format, not the HTML format. It seems clear to me that the Word format is "preferred". Cheers, Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
